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Interactions Of Ionic Liquids With Uranium And Its Implications On Biotransformation, Chengdong Zhang
Interactions Of Ionic Liquids With Uranium And Its Implications On Biotransformation, Chengdong Zhang
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Room temperature ionic liquids (ILs) are pure ionic compounds with melting points below 100°C, which have drawn great attention due to their many unique properties. They have been widely used in organic synthesis, analytical chemistry, and biochemistry. Although ionic liquids have been used to extract metals and radionuclides, there is no systematic study on the interactions of ILs with uranium and their effects on the biotransformation of uranium.
My research focused on: (1) the interactions between uranium and ionic liquids in aqueous solution; and (2) biotransformation of uranium in the presence of ILs. The interactions between three representative ionic liquids, …