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Invited for this month's cover is the collaborating group of Dr Guilhem Arrachart and Dr Stéphane Pellet-Rostaing at Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule (ICSM). The cover picture shows a person going uranium fishing thanks to the use of bis-catecholamide materials. These materials have shown interesting performance for the recovery of uranium in saline environments such as seawater. More information can be found in the Research Article by G. Arrachart, S. Pellet-Rostaing, and co-workers.
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This work reports the synthesis of formo-phenolic resins containing four catecholamide (CAM) moieties with admixture of phenol, catechol or resorcinol. These chelating resins have been developed to selectively extract U(VI) from seawater. This media is a challenging environment due to a pH around 8.2 and a large excess of alkaline and earth-alkaline cations. From the various sorption experiments investigated, the results indicate that the synthesized material exhibit good sorbent properties for U(VI) with uptake capacity about 50â mg/g for the more promising resins with a pronounced selectivity for uranium even under saline conditions. Thermodynamic and kinetic adsorption data were determined for the best resin (Langmuir adsorption model and pseudo-second order model).