화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol.365, 306-311, 2019
Peroxide-treated metal-organic framework templated adsorbents for remediation of high level nuclear waste
Remediation of legacy nuclear waste is one of the greatest challenges faced by the US Department of Energy, with projected cleanup efforts requiring over five decades and hundreds of billions of dollars. New materials are necessary to accelerate waste processing, achieving time and financial savings. Herein we report a peroxide treatment to a Ti metal-organic framework (MOF) and related MOF-templated adsorbents. The resulting materials displayed exceptional affinity for Am(III), achieving distribution coefficients in excess of 10(5) mL/g, and out-performing state-of-the-art benchmarks monosodium titanate (MST) and peroxo-treated modified MST (mMST) for removal of Sr-85(II) and Pu-239,Pu-245(IV) from legacy nuclear waste simulant.