ABSTRACT Uraniumisthemostsignificantelementinthenuclearindustryandiswidelyusedinnuclearfuelsas wellasnuclearweapons.Atpresent,thetotalamountofuraniumdiscoveredonlandislessthan5milliontons, whichmakesitessentialtoexploituraniumresourcesinseawater .Adsorption,asthemostpromisingmethodfor uraniumextractionfromseawater ,hasbeenwidelystudiedinthepreparationofvariousadsorbents,themechanism 基金资助:国家自然科学基金项目(U1732151)、中国科学院战略性先导科技专项(XDA02030200)资助 第一作者:敖浚轩,男,1993 年4月出生,2015 年于华中师范大学物理科学与技术学院获学士学位,现为中国科学院大学博士 研究生,从事辐射改性高分子材料研究 ,E-mail :aojunxuan@sinap.ac.cn 通信作者:马红娟,博士,副研究员,E-mail:mahongjuan@sinap.ac.cn;吴国忠,博士,研究员,E-mail: wuguozhong@sinap.ac.cn 收稿日期:初稿 2018-12-17;修回 2019-02-17 Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1732151) and Strategic Pilot and T echnology Special Funds of the ChineseAcademy of Science (XDA02030200) First author: AO Junxuan (male) was born in April 1993, and received his bachelor’ s degree from College of Physical Science and T echnology , Central China Normal University in 2015. Now he is a doctoral candidate at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, focusing on the study of radiation-induced modification of polymer , E-mail: aojunxuan@sinap.ac.cn Corresponding author: Ph.D. MA Hongjuan, associate professor , E-mail:mahongjuan@sinap.ac.cn; Ph.D. WU Guozhong, professor , E-mail: wuguozhong@sinap.ac.cn Received17December2018;accepted17February 2019 ofadsorption,andthevariousproblemsencounteredinnaturalseawater .Inthispaper ,thecontinuousresearch conductedinrecentyearsonuraniumextractionfromseawater ,includingmaterialpreparationmethods,adsorption mechanisms,adsorptiontechnology ,andnaturalseawateradsorption,wassummarized.Althoughuraniumextraction from seawater has been studied since the 1960s, the experimental results for natural seawater show that some key problems, such as the preparation of highly efficient adsorption materials, still need to be solved. KEYWORDS Uraniumextractionfromseawater ,Adsorbentmaterial,Coordinationmechanism CLC TL25