Plutonium, americium, and uranium contribute to the radioactive contamination of the environment and are risk factors for elevated radiation exposure ingestion through food or water. Due to the significant environmental inventory of these radioelements, a sampling method to accurately monitor their bioavailable concentrations in natural waters is necessary, especially since physicochemical factors can cause significant temporal fluctuations in their waterborne concentrations. To this end, we engineered novel diffusive gradients in thin-film (DGT) configurations using resin gels, which are selective for UO, Pu(IV + V), and Am(III) among an excess of extraneous cations. In this work, we also report an improved synthesis of our in-house ion-imprinted polymer resin, which we used to manufacture a resin gel to capture Am(III). The effective diffusion coefficients of Pu, Am, and U in agarose cross-linked polyacrylamide were determined in freshwater and seawater simulants and in natural seawater, to calibrate these configurations for environmental deployments.
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