Selective Anchoring
by Surface Sulfur Species Coupled
with Rapid Interface Electron Transfer for Ultrahigh Capacity Extraction
of Uranium from Seawater
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journal contribution
posted on 2023-12-12, 14:47authored byJianrong Wei, Siping Chen, Yimin Jiang, Zhijuan Liu, Yanjing Wang, Jie You, Fei Zhang, Yu Cao, Shuangyin Wang, Yanyong Wang
Improving the adsorption selectivity, enhancing the extraction
capacity, and ensuring the structural stability of the adsorbent are
the key to realize the high efficiency recovery of uranium. In this
work, we utilized the strong Lewis acid–base interaction between
S2– and U(VI)O22+ coupling
rapid electron transfer at the MnS/U(VI)O22+ solid–liquid interface to achieve excellent selectivity,
high adsorption capacity, and rapid extraction of uranium. The as-synthesized
MnS adsorbent exhibited an ultrahigh uranium extraction capacity (2457.05
mg g–1) and a rapid rate constant (K = 9.11 × 10–4 g h–1 mg–1) in seawater with 100.7 ppm of UO2(NO3)2 electrolyte. The kinetic simulation reveals
that this adsorption process is a chemical adsorption process and
conforms to a pseudo-second-order kinetic model, indicating electron
transfer at the MnS/U(VI)O22+ solid–liquid
interface. The relevant (quasi) in situ spectroscopic
characterization and theoretical calculation results further revealed
that the outstanding uranium extraction property of MnS could be attributed
to the highly selective UO22+ adsorption of
MnS with lower adsorption energy as a result of the strong interaction
between S2– and UO22+ and
the rapid mass transfer and interface electron transfer from S2– and low-valent Mn(II) to U(VI)O22+.