Highly efficient extraction of uranium from aqueous solution using imidazole functionalized core–shell sunflower-like superparamagnetic polymer microspheres: understanding adsorption and binding mechanisms

The core–shell sunflower-like magnetic polymer adsorbent Fe 3 O 4 /P (MBA-VIM) prepared by distillation–precipitation polymerization not only showed an outstanding adsorption efficiency for uranium, but also could be facilely isolated by using magnetic force.