Recently, a research team of Lanzhou University (LZU) has achieved a significant breakthrough in the field of adsorbent materials for uranium extraction from seawater. The team proposed a dynamic spatial coordination strategy that can simultaneously achieve precise identification (with a U/V ratio reaching 215) and highly efficient extraction (uranium adsorption capacity of 588.24 mg·g−1) of uranium in complex seawater systems, showing great potential for seawater uranium resource extraction. The study, titled “Photoisomerization-mediated tunable pore size in metal organic frameworks for U(VI)/V(V) selective separation”, has been published in Nature Communications.
This research provides a novel and effective technical approach for the efficient extraction of uranium resources from seawater.
Paper Link：https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57638-4
