Preparation and Uranium Sorption Performance of Amidoximated Polyacrylonitrile/Organobentonite Nano Composite
Polyacrylonitrile/montmorillonite (PAN/MMT) nanocomposite with amidoxime functionality was prepared from acrylonitrile monomer(AN) and montmorillonite(MMT) through in-situ intercalation polymerization. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and X-ray diffraction patter (XRD) were employed to characterize the obtained Na-MMT、Organ-MMT、PAN/MMT、APAN/MMT. Effects of preparing conditions of APAN/MMT on adsorption of uranium were investigated. The FT-IR spectra show that the new absorption band at 1653 cm-1( ) appears and the absorption band at 2243 cm-1(-CN) disappears on the spectrum of APAN/MMT, it indicates that the AN and MMT are successfully polymerized by in-situ polymerization and the PAN/MMT is amidoxime functionalized. The APAN/MMT nanocomposite completely lose the X-ray diffraction. The adsorption results show that the obtained APAN-MMT gives uranium adsorption capacity of 3.06 mg.g-1 under following conditions: uranium ion concentration of 10 mg/L, AM mass concentration of 80.0%, initiator of 4.5%, polymerization temperature of 70 °C,polymerization time of 3 h, pH of 7 and amidoxime functionalized reaction time of 2 h.