Hydrophilic chelators for coordination and separation of radioactive f-block elements

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Issue		Natl Sci Open Volume 4, Number 1, 2025 Special Topic: Nuclear Environment Advances


Article Number		20240028
Number of page(s)		35
Section		Earth and Environmental Sciences
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1360/nso/20240028
Published online		20 September 2024

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