Uranium reveals its true nature

An important discovery about uranium was done by EPFL scientists and has been published in Nature Communications. CIME scientist Barbora Bartova has participated in this research. Well done!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

UO2 nanoparticles self-assembled into nanowire associated with magnetite particle. Scale bar= 5 nm. UO2 nanoparticles are false colored in blue, magnetite is in yellow.
Picture done by Barbora Bartova
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Conceptual model of U(VI) redaction by magnetite.
Picture done by Barbora Bartova
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