Coupled Biogeochemical Processes for the Reduction and Immobilization of Uranium

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Coupled Biogeochemical Processes for the Reduction and Immobilization of Uranium

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Multi-electron Transfer by U(II) and Masked U(II) Complexes

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Role of Iron Sulfide Phases in the Stability of Noncrystalline Tetravalent Uranium in Sediments

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Development and verification of pin-by-pin homogenized simplified transport solver Tortin for PWR core analysis

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Small molecule activation by multimetallic uranium complexes supported by siloxide ligands

Effect of Aging on the Stability of Microbially Reduced Uranium in Natural Sediment

Non-crystalline tetravalent uranium species in the subsurface: formation and stability

Facile N-functionalization and strong magnetic communication in a diuranium(v) bis-nitride complex

Structural Snapshots of Cluster Growth from {U6 } to {U38 } During the Hydrolysis of UCl4

Small Molecule Activation by Multimetallic Uranium Complexes

Four-electron Reduction and Functionalization of N₂ by a Uranium(III) Bridging Nitride