title: Polymer-inorganic coatings containing nanosized sorbents selective to radionuclides. 1. Latex/cobalt hexacyanoferrate(II) composites for cesium fixation.
abstract: Here we present a new approach to improve fixation of radionuclides on contaminated surfaces and eliminate their migration after nuclear accidents. The approach consists in fabrication of latex composite coatings, which combine properties of polymeric dust-suppressors preventing radionuclides migration with aerosols and selective inorganic sorbents blocking radionuclides leaching under contact with ground waters and atmospheric precipitates. Latex/cobalt hexacyanoferrate(II) (CoHCF) composites selective to cesium radionuclides were synthesized via "in situ" growth of CoHCF crystal on the surface of carboxylic or amino latexes using surface functional groups as ion-exchange centers for binding precursor ions Co(2+) and [Fe(CN)6](4-). Casting such composite dispersions with variable content of CoHCF on (137)Cs-contaminated sand has yielded protective coatings, which reduced cesium leaching to 0.4% compared to 70% leaching through original latex coatings. (137)Cs migration from the sand surface was efficiently minimized when the volume fraction of CoHCF in the composite film was as low as 0.46-1.7%.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemistry Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Prosp.100-letiya Vladivostoka 159, 690022 Vladivostok, Russia.
authors.forename: Svetlana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bratskaya
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Musyanovych
authors.forename: Veniamin
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Zheleznov
authors.forename: Alla
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Synytska
authors.forename: Dmitry
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marinin
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Simon
authors.forename: Valentin
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Avramenko
keywords: 137Cs; dust suppressor; ferrocyanide; nanoparticles; radionuclide migration; soil