Atalante2024 Best Poster Award

At the Atalante2024 conference, held from September 2 to 5 at the Palais des Papes in Avignon (France), one of the two prizes for the best posters was awarded to Mathéo Henry, a PhD student at the Hybrid Systems for Separation Laboratory (LHyS) at the Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule (ICSM). The prize was awarded for an innovative study into a new manufacturing method for irradiated fuel. The aim of this research is to explore the co-precipitation of thorium (simulating plutonium) and uranium after their extraction in the organic phase. The pre-precipitation step is made possible by the addition of an organic ligand, enabling the formation of a hybrid organic/inorganic coordination polymer (of the An-MOF type for Actinide Metal-Organic-Framework) with the actinides in the system. The resulting precipitates are then calcined to form actinide oxides with controllable morphologies. 

^{Credit: ICSM/LHYS}

More information:
Uranium Extraction by Metal-Organic Frame-works: Advanced Materials for New Sorption Possibilities.
M. Henry, D. Rinsant, J. Maynadié, M. Carboni. Dalton Transactions (2024), Advance Article (In Press). DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02208D