Development and Testing of Diglycolamide Functionalized Mesoporous Silica for Sorption of Trivalent Actinides and Lanthanides

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 37, 2015, Pages 20591-20599

  Shusterman, Jennifer A ^a   Mason, Harris E ^b   Bowers, Jon ^a   Bruchet, Anthony ^a   Uribe, Eva C ^a   Kersting, Annie B ^b   Nitsche, Heino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

americium; diglycolamide; europium; mesoporous silica; separations; solid state NMR

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; AMERICIUM; EUROPIUM; HYBRID MATERIALS; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; LIGANDS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SEPARATION; SILICA; SORPTION;

DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING; DIGLYCOLAMIDE; HYDROCHLORIC ACID MEDIA; MESOPOROUS SILICA; MODIFIED MESOPOROUS SILICAS; SOLID STATE NMR; SOLID-PHASE EXTRACTANTS; SOLID-STATE NMR SPECTROSCOPY;

MESOPOROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 84942278776     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b04481     Document Type: Article

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