Creating electrochemical accessibility in covalent organic frameworks for uranium extraction via electrodeposition
Abstract The demand for mining metals via electrodeposition drives the need for high-performance electrodes. Traditional adsorbents are electrically insulating, limiting efficiency due to poor electrical contact. We overcome this by infiltrating conductive polymers into adsorbent pores, enhancing el...
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| author | Yanpei Song Linxiao Hou Pui Ching Lan Zhiwei Xing Qi Sun Jia Lv Jingwei Li Daliang Zhang Zhifeng Dai Thamraa AlShahrani Shengqian Ma |
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| description | Abstract The demand for mining metals via electrodeposition drives the need for high-performance electrodes. Traditional adsorbents are electrically insulating, limiting efficiency due to poor electrical contact. We overcome this by infiltrating conductive polymers into adsorbent pores, enhancing electrical connectivity and aligning chelators. This improves electrical pathways, enabling rapid nucleation and high space-time efficiency. Electrochemical uranium uptake from spiked seawater reaches 26.5 g uranium per gram of adsorbents, four times higher than electrodes mixing adsorbents with carbon black, and two orders of magnitude higher than physicochemical methods. The system also achieves uranium mining from natural seawater at 17.4 mg g−1 with an enrichment index of 1.1 × 10⁷. This strategy offers a blueprint for designing electrodes with better electronic access to active sites, boosting performance in electrically driven processes. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d2180aff39b846328ab3657a8aad2e7b2025-08-20T04:03:03ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232025-08-0116111010.1038/s41467-025-62501-7Creating electrochemical accessibility in covalent organic frameworks for uranium extraction via electrodepositionYanpei Song0Linxiao Hou1Pui Ching Lan2Zhiwei Xing3Qi Sun4Jia Lv5Jingwei Li6Daliang Zhang7Zhifeng Dai8Thamraa AlShahrani9Shengqian Ma10Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1508 W Mulberry StZhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Chemical Engineering Manufacture Technology, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang UniversityDepartment of Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1508 W Mulberry StZhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Chemical Engineering Manufacture Technology, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang UniversityZhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Chemical Engineering Manufacture Technology, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang UniversityMulti-scale Porous Materials Center, Institute of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies & School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing UniversityMulti-scale Porous Materials Center, Institute of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies & School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing UniversityMulti-scale Porous Materials Center, Institute of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies & School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing UniversityKey Laboratory of Surface & Interface Science of Polymer Materials of Zhejiang Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityDepartment of Physics, College of Science, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman UniversityDepartment of Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1508 W Mulberry StAbstract The demand for mining metals via electrodeposition drives the need for high-performance electrodes. Traditional adsorbents are electrically insulating, limiting efficiency due to poor electrical contact. We overcome this by infiltrating conductive polymers into adsorbent pores, enhancing electrical connectivity and aligning chelators. This improves electrical pathways, enabling rapid nucleation and high space-time efficiency. Electrochemical uranium uptake from spiked seawater reaches 26.5 g uranium per gram of adsorbents, four times higher than electrodes mixing adsorbents with carbon black, and two orders of magnitude higher than physicochemical methods. The system also achieves uranium mining from natural seawater at 17.4 mg g−1 with an enrichment index of 1.1 × 10⁷. This strategy offers a blueprint for designing electrodes with better electronic access to active sites, boosting performance in electrically driven processes.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62501-7 |
| spellingShingle | Yanpei Song Linxiao Hou Pui Ching Lan Zhiwei Xing Qi Sun Jia Lv Jingwei Li Daliang Zhang Zhifeng Dai Thamraa AlShahrani Shengqian Ma Creating electrochemical accessibility in covalent organic frameworks for uranium extraction via electrodeposition Nature Communications |
| title | Creating electrochemical accessibility in covalent organic frameworks for uranium extraction via electrodeposition |
| title_full | Creating electrochemical accessibility in covalent organic frameworks for uranium extraction via electrodeposition |
| title_fullStr | Creating electrochemical accessibility in covalent organic frameworks for uranium extraction via electrodeposition |
| title_full_unstemmed | Creating electrochemical accessibility in covalent organic frameworks for uranium extraction via electrodeposition |
| title_short | Creating electrochemical accessibility in covalent organic frameworks for uranium extraction via electrodeposition |
| title_sort | creating electrochemical accessibility in covalent organic frameworks for uranium extraction via electrodeposition |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62501-7 |
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