Development and outlook of advanced nuclear energy technology

Li, Zhan; Yang, Bo; Tian, Lin; Zhang, F.

doi:10.1016/j.esr.2021.100630

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“…Confused by the rapid consumption of fossil fuels, the effective application of renewable energy has triggered a series of exploring activities recently. − However, renewable energy, including wind power, solar energy, and so on, is still limited by unsustainability, thus resulting in the fast development of energy-storage devices. Among various energy-storage devices, batteries have an extremely high energy conversion efficiency and flexibility in scale, making them highly adaptable to most renewable energies.…”

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Advances on Nickel-Based Electrode Materials for Secondary Battery Systems: A Review

Zeng

Zhao

Yuan

et al. 2022

ACS Appl. Energy Mater.

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Captured by the high energy density and eco-friendly properties, secondary energy-storage systems have attracted a great deal of attention. For meeting with the demand of advanced systems with both cycling stability and high capacity, a series of tailoring methods have been used. Electrode materials, as the main components of a full cell, play importance roles in capacity contribution. Thus, exploring suitable materials has been deemed to be vital for the development of energy-storage systems. Recently, compared to the traditional carbon-based materials, the considerable electrochemical properties of metal-based samples have been observed. Alternatively, nickel-based materials displayed resource abundance, environmental-friendliness, and high theoretical specific capacity, while the rich exploring activities have been scarily summarized. In this review, the energy-storage performances of nickel-based materials, such as NiO, NiSe/NiSe2, NiS/NiS2/Ni3S2, Ni2P, Ni3N, and Ni(OH)2, are summarized in detail. For some materials with innovative structures, their merits and characteristics were discussed elaborately through four points: (1) the controlling of nanostructures, (2) the complexing of carbon materials, (3) the doping of heteroatoms, and (4) the designing of heterostructures. Significantly, the challenges and prospects of nickel-based materials for secondary battery systems are discussed. This work is expected to offer significant summarization and prospects about physical–chemical designing for nickel-based samples.

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Advances on Nickel-Based Electrode Materials for Secondary Battery Systems: A Review

Zeng

Zhao

Yuan

et al. 2022

ACS Appl. Energy Mater.

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“…With the reduced availability of fossil energy and increasing global warming, clean, low-carbon and efficient nuclear energy sources are being rapidly developed in many countries [ 1 ]. Although the safety of nuclear energy is high today, there is still a risk of nuclear explosions and leakage, as manifest in the Chernobyl nuclear explosion and the Fukushima nuclear accident [ 2 ].…”

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Effects of Fatty Alcohols with Different Chain Lengths on the Performance of Low pH Biomass-Based Foams for Radioactive Decontamination

Zhang

Liang

Xi³

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Compared with polymers and nanoparticles, fatty alcohols can not only increase the stability of foam, but also maintain better foamability at pH < 2, which is beneficial to reduce waste liquid and increase decontamination efficiency for radioactive surface pollution. However, different fatty alcohols have different hydrophobic chain lengths. The effects of fatty alcohols with different chain lengths on the performance of decontamination foam were studied at pH < 2, to assist in the selection of suitable fatty alcohols as foam stabilizers. Combined with betaine surfactant and phytic acid, biomass-based foams were synthesized using fatty alcohols with different chain lengths. When the hydrophobic tail groups of the fatty alcohol and the surfactant were the same, the foam showed the best performance, including the lowest surface tension, the highest liquid film strength, the greatest sag-resistance and the best stability. However, when the hydrophobic tail groups were different, the space between adjacent surface active molecules was increased by thermal motion of the excess terminal tail segments (a tail-wagging effect), and the adsorption density reduced on the gas-liquid interface, leading to increased surface tension and decreased liquid film strength, sag-resistance and stability. The use of decontamination foam stabilized by fatty alcohols with the same hydrophobic group as the surfactant was found to increase the decontamination rate of radioactive uranium pollution from 64 to over 90% on a vertical surface.

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“…Nuclear power is a clean, stable and sustainable power generation technology, and is the most mature new energy generation method [2]. Enriched uranium as the primary nuclear fuel is critical to the sustainability of the nuclear energy industry [3]. However, uranium wastewater is inevitably generated during nuclear fuel production, especially in the form of uranyl ions (UO 2 2+ ) that can directly harm the environment and lives of human and animal populations [4].…”

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MIL-100(Fe)/g-C3N4 composites with enhanced photocatalytic activity for UO22+ reduction under visible light

Zhang

Xue

Wang

et al. 2022

Photochem Photobiol Sci

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As a clean energy source, nuclear energy can gradually replace traditional fossil energy sources, and is an important means to achieve the "double carbon goal". Uranium-containing wastewater is inevitable in the development of nuclear energy. The composites MIL/CNx of MOF material MIL-100(Fe) and carbon nitride (CN) were obtained by a simple solvo-thermal method using iron nitrate, homophthalic acid and CN. The material MIL-100(Fe) with high specific surface area was compounded with CN to increase the in-plane adsorption sites, which could adsorb 30% of uranium in solution during the dark reaction. The close interfacial contact of the two materials effectively inhibited the complexation of photo-generated electrons and holes and promotes electron migration. These two synergistic effects improved their overall photocatalytic reduction capacity, which could reduce 97% of UO 2 2+ in solution in 20 min. The UO 2 2+ removal efficiency of MIL/CN 0.1 was 2.3 and 1.6 times higher than that of CN and MIL-100(Fe), respectively. In addition, MIL/CN 0.1 was stable in reducing uranium during the five cycles of the experiment.

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Development and outlook of advanced nuclear energy technology

Cited by 84 publications

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Advances on Nickel-Based Electrode Materials for Secondary Battery Systems: A Review

Advances on Nickel-Based Electrode Materials for Secondary Battery Systems: A Review

Effects of Fatty Alcohols with Different Chain Lengths on the Performance of Low pH Biomass-Based Foams for Radioactive Decontamination

MIL-100(Fe)/g-C3N4 composites with enhanced photocatalytic activity for UO22+ reduction under visible light

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