Uranium-extracting technology for seawater earns research award for grad student
Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 17:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Scientists have long known that seawater contains small concentrations of valuable metals, but a technologically feasible extraction method has remained elusive. The University of Chicago's Carter Abney, a graduate student in chemistry, has been developing materials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to help address the problem.