Multifunctional flexible free-standing titanate nanobelt membranes as efficient sorbents for the removal of radioactive 90Sr2+ and 137Cs+ ions and oils

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wen, Tao ^a   Zhao, Zhiwei ^b   Shen, Congcong ^b   Li, Jiaxing ^a   Tan, Xiaoli ^a,d   Zeb, Akif ^b   Wang, Xiangke ^a,c,d   Xu, An Wu ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLASMA PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiation Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CESIUM; NANOMATERIAL; OXIDE; PETROLEUM; SEA WATER; SODIUM TITANATE; STRONTIUM; TITANIUM; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADSORPTION; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; MATERIALS TESTING; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; OIL SPILL; PROCEDURES; RECYCLING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADSORPTION; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; EQUIPMENT REUSE; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; KINETICS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDES; PETROLEUM; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; SEAWATER; STRONTIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TITANIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84958559588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20920     Document Type: Article

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