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The polyethylene (PE) adsorbents were prepared by a radiation-induced graft
ing of acrylonitrile (AN), acrylic acid (AA), and the mixture of AN/AA onto
PE film, and by subsequent amidoximation of cyano groups of poly-AN graft
chains. With an increase of AA composition in AN/AA monomer mixture, the wa
ter uptake of the grafted polyethylene film increased. In AN/AA mixture, th
e maximum adsorption of UO22+ was observed in the adsorbent with a ratio of
AN/AA (50/50, mol%) in copolymer. The amidoxime, carboxyl, and amidoxime/c
arboxyl groups onto PE acted as a chelating site for the selected UO22+. Th
e complex structure of polyethylene with three functional groups and UO22was confirmed by Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. (C) 2000 E
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