Engineering Nanoscale Iron Oxides for Uranyl Sorption and Separation: Optimization of Particle Core Size and Bilayer Surface Coatings

Li, Wenlu; Troyer, Lyndsay D.; Lee, Seung Soo; Wu, Jiewei; Kim, Changwoo; Lafferty, Brandon J.; Catalano, Jeffrey G.; Fortner, John D.

doi:10.1021/acsami.7b01042

Title: Engineering Nanoscale Iron Oxides for Uranyl Sorption and Separation: Optimization of Particle Core Size and Bilayer Surface Coatings

Journal Article · Tue Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b01042· OSTI ID:1415163

; Troyer, Lyndsay D.; Lee, Seung Soo; Wu, Jiewei; Kim, Changwoo; Lafferty, Brandon J. ^[1]; Catalano, Jeffrey G.; Fortner, John D.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, Mississippi 39180, United States

Herein, we describe engineered superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) as platform materials for enhanced uranyl (UO₂²⁺) sorption and separation processes under environmentally relevant conditions. Specifically, monodispersed 8-25 nm iron oxide (magnetite, Fe₃O₄) nanoparticles with tailored organic acid bilayered coatings have been systematically evaluated and optimized to bind, and thus remove, uranium from water. The combined nonhydrolytic synthesis and bilayer phase transfer material preparation methods yield highly uniform and surface tailorable IONPs, which allow for direct evaluation of the size-dependent and coating-dependent sorption capacities of IONPs. Optimized materials demonstrate ultrahigh sorption capacities (>50% by wt/wt) at pH 5.6 for 8 nm oleic acid (OA) bilayer and sodium monododecyl phosphate (SDP) surface-stabilized IONPs. Synchrotron-based X-ray absorption spectroscopy shows that iron oxide core particle size and stabilizing surface functional group(s) substantially affect U(VI)-removal mechanisms, specifically the ratio of uptake via adsorption versus reduction to U(IV). Taken together, tunable size and surface functionality, high colloidal stability, and favorable affinity toward uranium provide distinct synergistic advantage(s) for the application of bilayered IONPs as part of the next-generation material-based uranium recovery, remediation, and sensing technologies

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Research Organization:: Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS); Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0006857

OSTI ID:: 1415163

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1356408; OSTI ID: 1508035

Journal Information:: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Journal Name: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces Vol. 9 Journal Issue: 15; ISSN 1944-8244

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