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Photocatalytic uranium extraction boosted by dual effective active sites of porphyrin metal-organic frameworks

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Porphyrinoid metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with dual effective uranium uptake sites were synthesized through combined in-situ and post-synthetic method. The MOF10@5 demonstrates the uptake amount of uranium reaches 1476 mg/g under visible-light irradiation. The PN-MOF10@5 with dual uranyl uptake sites yields the amount of extracting uranyl of 1590 mg/g under visible-light irradiation. The density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal strong interaction between uranyl and dual uranyl effective active sites. These MOFs demonstrate a powerful synthesis strategy for uranium extraction materials with dual effective active sites.

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This work was partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22301108) and the Project Startup Foundation for Distinguished Scholars of Jiangsu University (No. 4111310026).

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  1. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, 212013, China

    Jianming Pan, Bentian **ao, Yanan Yang, Tao Zhang, Fengxian Qiu & Songlin Xue

  2. Institute of Smart Liquid Crystal Technologies, JITRI, 280 Huangpu Jiang Road, Changshu, 215500, China

    Wei Zhu

  3. State key laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, Tian**, 300387, China

    Hongliang Huang

  4. School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tiangong University, Tian**, 300387, China

    Hongliang Huang

  5. School of Materials and Chemistry, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China

    Zichao Lian

  6. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Institute for Innovative Materials and Energy, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225002, China

    Huan Pang

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Pan, J., **ao, B., Zhu, W. et al. Photocatalytic uranium extraction boosted by dual effective active sites of porphyrin metal-organic frameworks. Nano Res. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-024-6654-x

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