News in the Radiochemistry Group

News in the Radiochemistry Group

News

Madeleine Forbes successfully passed her proposal defense. 05/2024

Emily Maulden is the winner of the Innovations in Nuclear Energy Research and Development Student Competition for the paper “Technetium immobilization with tailored iron-functionalized organoclay.” 2024

Kai Schulte is the recipient of a 2024 University Nuclear Leadership Program Scholarship

Kai Schulte is a recipient of a 2024-2025 UF University Scholarship

Kai Schulte has been selected for a Summer Internship at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2024)

Emily Maulden successfully defended her Ph.D. Dissertation in October 2023. “Technetium and iodine immobilization by functionalized clay”.

Recent publications (see full lists here)

Thermodynamic parameters for the complexation of Tc(IV) species with chloride under aqueous conditions. Cecilia Eiroa-Lledo, Emily MauldenP, Morgan P. Kelley, Donald E. Wall, Nathalie A. Wall*. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry (2024)

Silanization for minimizing tracer cation sorption on glass vials. Emily MauldenP, Donald E. Wall, Nathalie A. Wall*. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry (2024)

Flow Injection Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance with ICP-OES detection: electroprecipitation and stripping of lanthanum and neodymium in a flow cell. Daniel E. MolinaG, Nathalie A. Wall, Haluk Beyenal, Cornelius F. Ivory. Journal of The Electrochemical Society 170 (3), 037521 (2023)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/1945-7111/acc27b

Technetium immobilization with tailored iron-functionalized organoclay. Emily MauldenG, Elizabeth GagerG, Juan C. Nino, Carolyn Pearce, Jim Szecsody, Nathan M. MackeyU, Thi LeU, Mark JohnsonU, Noah CaracuelU, Nathalie A. Wall*. Applied Clay Science. 233, 106828. (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clay.2023.106828

Retention of Radionuclides in Sol-gel Surrogate Nuclear Explosive Debris. Mathew Snow; Robert LuskG; Jess Meiers; Brian Bucher; Nathalie Wall; Saige Forbush; Kevin Carney; David Chichester. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. 332:683–689 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-022-08716-0

Recent Presentations

Organoclays for the sequestration of technetium and iodine. Nathalie A. Wall, Emily MauldenG, Elizabeth GagerG, Seaton UllbergG, An T. TaP, Juan C. Nino, Simon Phillpot, Carolyn I. Pearce, James E. Szecsody. Radiobioassay & Radiochemical Measurements Conference (RRMC). WestPalm Beach, FL 10/29–11/03/2023

The Consortium for Nuclear Forensics. Nathalie A. Wall. Keynote speaker for the 2023 Radiobioassay & Radiochemical Measurements Conference (RRMC), West Palm Beach, FL. 11/02/2023

Technetium and iodine immobilization by organic-inorganic functionalized clay material. Emily MauldenG, Elizabeth GagerG, Juan C. Nino, Carolyn Pearce, Jim Szecsody, Nathalie A. Wall. ACS Spring 2023. Indianapolis, IN 03/25-30/2023.