Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Regenerable and stable sp 2 carbon-conjugated covalent organic frameworks for selective detection and extraction of uranium

  • Wei-Rong Cui,
  • Cheng-Rong Zhang,
  • Wei Jiang,
  • Fang-Fang Li,
  • Ru-Ping Liang,
  • Juewen Liu,
  • Jian-Ding Qiu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14289-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Porous materials for uranium capture have been developed in the past, but materials for simultaneous uranium capture and detection are scarce. Here the authors develop a stable covalent organic framework capable of adsorbing and detecting uranyl ions.