Published January 2022 | Version v1
Journal article

Fabrication of a novel electrospun polyvinyl alcohol/polyacrylic acid nanofiber adsorbent loading with montmorillonite or zeolite for uranium (VI) removal

  • 1. East China University of Technology, Nanchang, Jiangxi (China). School of Chemistry, Biological and Materials Sciences
  • 2. East China University of Technology, Nanchang, Jiangxi (China). State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Resources and Environment

Description

A novel combined technology involving electrospinning, and hydrothermal tactics was developed to fabricate polyvinyl alcohol/polyacrylic acid (PVA/PAA) superhydrophilic nanofibers supported on montmorillonite (MMT) or zeolite. A series of structural characterizations and activity measurements demonstrate that the montmorillonite or zeolite support can significantly decrease the mean nanofiber diameter, resulting in more abundant active sites toward the adsorption of uranium. The maximum monolayer sorption capacity for MMT/PVA/PAA and zeolite/PVA/PAA nanofibers reached as high as 170.53 and 205.75 mg/g, respectively. Five adsorption and desorption cycle experiments demonstrated that the synthetic materials possessed good renewable performance. (author)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Journal Volume
331
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 297-307
ISSN
0236-5731
CODEN
JRNCDM

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