Americium(III) capture using phosphonic acid-functionalized silicas with different mesoporous morphologies: Adsorption behavior study and mechanism investigation by EXAFS/XPS

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 6874-6881

  Zhang, Wen ^a   He, Xihong ^a   Ye, Gang ^a   Yi, Rong ^a   Chen, Jing ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTENDED X RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY; LIGANDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; RADIOISOTOPES; SILICA; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ADSORPTION BEHAVIOR; BINDING MECHANISMS; COORDINATION BEHAVIOR; COORDINATION NUMBER; EXTENDED X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; MECHANISM INVESTIGATION; RADIOACTIVE LIQUID WASTE; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER;

AMERICIUM;

AMERICIUM 241; CARBON 13; LIGAND; PHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PROTON; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ADSORPTION; AMERICIUM; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL PROPERTY; DIFFUSION; EUROPIUM; LIGAND; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POROUS MEDIUM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIONUCLIDE; REACTION KINETICS; REACTION RATE; SILICA; WASTE TREATMENT; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION; ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; CATION EXCHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESORPTION; EXTENDED X RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE; HYDROLYSIS; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NITROGEN UPTAKE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PH; POTENTIOMETRIC TITRATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS;

ADSORPTION; AMERICIUM; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPIUM; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHOSPHOROUS ACIDS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; POROSITY; SILICON DIOXIDE; X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84902603039     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es500563q     Document Type: Article

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