Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Origin of the unusually strong and selective binding of vanadium by polyamidoximes in seawater

  • Alexander S. Ivanov,
  • Christina J. Leggett,
  • Bernard F. Parker,
  • Zhicheng Zhang,
  • John Arnold,
  • Sheng Dai,
  • Carter W. Abney,
  • Vyacheslav S. Bryantsev,
  • Linfeng Rao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01443-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Amidoxime-functionalized polymeric adsorbents are the most promising materials for harvesting uranium from seawater. Here the authors investigate the preferential extraction of vanadium over uranium by polyamidoximes by exploring the unusually strong and selective binding of vanadium.