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Title: Potential Modulated Intercalation Of Alkali Cations Into Metal Hexacyanoferrate Coated Electrodes

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/828574· OSTI ID:828574

Nickel hexacyanoferrate is a polynuclear inorganic ion intercalation material that loads (intercalates) and elutes (deintercalates) alkali cations from its structure when electrochemically reduced and oxidized, respectively. Nickel hexacyanoferrate (NiHCF) is known to preferentially intercalate cesium over all other alkali cations, thus providing a basis for a separation scheme that can tackle DOE's radiocesium contamination problem. This program studied fundamental issues in alkali cation intercalation and deintercalation in nickel hexacyanoferrate compounds, with the goal of (1) quantifying the ion exchange selectivity properties for cation mixtures, (2) enhancing ion exchange capacities, and (3) and understanding the electrochemically-switched ion exchange process (ESIX).

Research Organization:
University of Washington, Seattle WA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
FG07-97ER14819
OSTI ID:
828574
Report Number(s):
EMSP-60123-2001; R&D Project: EMSP 60123; TRN: US200427%%509
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 1 Jun 2001
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English