Seawater Uranium Sorbents: Preparation from a Mesoporous Copolymer Initiator by Atom‐Transfer Radical Polymerization1. Issue 50 (31st October 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yue, Yanfeng; Mayes, Richard T.; Kim, Jungseung; Fulvio, Pasquale F.; Sun, Xiao‐Guang; Tsouris, Costas; Chen, Jihua; Brown, Suree; Dai, Sheng
• Is Part Of: Angewandte Chemie international edition. Volume 52:Issue 50(2013)
• Page Start: 13458
• Page End: 13462
• Publication Date: 2013-10-31
• Subjects: Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.201307825
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1433-7851

Abstract

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