Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Ultra-selective ligand-driven separation of strategic actinides

  • Gauthier J.-P. Deblonde,
  • Abel Ricano,
  • Rebecca J. Abergel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10240-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Radionuclides are of great importance for fields such as nuclear medicine and waste recycling, but their efficient purification remains a challenge. Here the authors show that an octadentate hydroxypyridinone chelator enables efficient and robust separation processes for isotopes of Ac, Pu, and Bk.