Abstract
Owing to many problems of the detriment by large amount of organic reagents, high cost and difficulty of industrialization, development of high-efficiency economical technologies for uranium extraction is an irresistible trend to support steady supply of nuclear energy. Herein, a novel fibrous adsorbent, named as AO-HPE fibers, was prepared by introduction of amidoxime groups using the green vapor-phase grafting polymerization (VPGP) technology of monomer acrylonitrile (AN). Gaseous AN was grafted onto the ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fibers at 80 °C in the enclosed evaporation and condensation reflux system. The innovative technology not only endowed synthetic process high monomer utilization ratio but also excellent environmental friendliness. The AO-HPE fibers exhibited an appreciable calculated maximum adsorption capacity (Qm) of 1144.94 mg·g–1 in uranium solution and an adsorption capacity of 14.11 mg·g–1 in simulated seawater. Meanwhile, the higher uranium selectivity than main competing ion vanadium (adsorption mass ratio was almost 5) was achieved. The adsorption process accorded closely with chemisorption mechanism. This work provided a novel idea for the synthetic method of adsorbents for uranium extraction, and inspired the sustainable technologies for grafting polymerization of monomer AN.
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