Lanhua Chen

TL;DR: SZ-2 and SZ-3 can effectively remove uranyl ions from aqueous solutions over a wide pH range, and the removal mechanism is elucidated, and single crystals of three zirconium phosphonates that are suitable for structural analysis are obtained.

TL;DR: A hydrolytically stable and radiation-resistant cationic metal-organic framework (MOF), SCU-101, exhibiting extremely fast removal kinetics, exceptional distribution coefficient, and high sorption capacity toward TcO4 is reported, capable of effectively separating T cO4- from Hanford low-level waste melter off-gas scrubber simulant stream.

TL;DR: A hydrolytically stable mesoporous terbium(III)-based MOF material compound 1 is introduced, whose channels are as large as 27 Å × 23 Å and are equipped with abundant exposed Lewis basic sites, the luminescence intensity of which can be efficiently and selectively quenched by uranyl ions.

TL;DR: This work represents a practical case of TcO4- removal by a MOF material and demonstrates the promise of using this type of material as a scavenger for treating anionic radioactive contaminants during the nuclear waste partitioning and remediation processes.

TL;DR: A thorium-based mesoporous, cationic and hydrolytically-stable MOF that can rapidly trap inorganic and organic anionic pollutants and both fast uptake kinetics and great sorption selectivity toward PFOS are observed.