Abstract
Radionuclide extraction from wastewater is a long-term process, in which the study on the reuse and decomposition of adsorbents provides the ability to complete the post-treatment after adsorption. Herein, A novel biodegradable amidoxime chitosan has been synthesized through one-step without crosslinking agent and characterized by FT-IR, SEM, XPS, TGA and element analysis. The batch adsorption experiments of U(VI) and Th(IV) on AO-CTS adsorbent were studied and maximum adsorption of U(VI) and Th(IV) were 97 and 56 mg/g, respectively. The U(VI) and Th(Ⅳ) can be effectively desorbed from the AO-CTS materials at low acidity, The AO-CTS can be reused 6 times without reducing absorbency for U(VI) and Th(Ⅳ). When finish the adsorption process, the AO-CTS can be degraded by lysozyme at room temperature, there were no toxic or harmful substances are produced.
Funding source: National Nature Science Foundation of China
Award Identifier / Grant number: 21762001 and 22076071
Funding source: Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Award Identifier / Grant number: lzujbky-2020-kb06
Funding source: Key scientific research bidding projects of Gansu University of Chinese Medicine
Award Identifier / Grant number: 2305137401
Author contributions: Tonghuan Liu and Guojian Duan conceived and designed the experiments; Zhiwei Lei and Jiaju Ma performed the experiments; Lijuan Qian, Tonghuan Liu and Peizhuo Hu analyzed the data; Tonghuan Liu, Guojian Duan and Yun Zhou contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools; Tonghuan Liu writing—original draft preparation; Guojian Duan literature search. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Research funding: This research was funded by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 21762001 and 22076071), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (lzujbky-2020-kb06) and 2015 Key scientific research bidding projects of Gansu University of Chinese Medicine (2305137401).
Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.
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