Loading Actinides in Multilayered Structures for Nuclear Waste Treatment: The First Case Study of Uranium Capture with Vanadium Carbide MXene

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 25, 2016, Pages 16396-16403

  Wang, Lin ^a   Yuan, Liyong ^a   Chen, Ke ^b   Zhang, Yujuan ^a   Deng, Qihuang ^b   Du, Shiyu ^b   Huang, Qing ^b   Zheng, Lirong ^a   Zhang, Jing ^a   Chai, Zhifang ^a   Barsoum, Michel W ^c   Wang, Xiangke ^d   Shi, Weiqun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^b NINGBO INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING   (China)

^c Drexel University   (United States)

^d NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

actinide; DFT calculation; EXAFS; MXene; sorption; uranium; vanadium carbide

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; ADSORPTION; CARBIDES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; NANOSHEETS; SOLUTIONS; SORPTION; URANIUM; URANIUM CARBIDE; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; VANADIUM; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE TREATMENT; X RAY ABSORPTION;

DFT CALCULATION; EXAFS; INNER SPHERE COMPLEXES; MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURE; MXENE; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D); VANADIUM CARBIDES; X RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURES;

RADIOACTIVE WASTES;

EID: 84976528302     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b02989     Document Type: Article

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