核能是维护国家安全、实现低碳产能和有效解决环境污染问题的重要保障。研究团队围绕核燃料循环前端海水提铀和尾端乏燃料后处理难题，突破了传统材料的局限，解决了技术难题，为海水提铀和乏燃料后处理中有用核素分离提取提供了新思路、新材料、新技术和新方法。主要贡献如下：
1. 开发的吸附-电催化技术解决了传统海水提铀材料吸附容量低、选择性差动力学慢和易生物污损等难点，并提出了单原子金属中心是铀酰催化转化的电子转移平台理念；设计合成了多组分 COF 吸附-光催化剂，克服了 COFs 用于海水提铀需要使用牺牲剂分离光生电子难题，揭示了材料结构与性能的构效关系；提出了调控酰肼 COFs 局部孔隙特征、激发态电子分布和电荷转移性质新理念，实现了海水中铀酰的高效光催化还原提取，取得了天然海水中创纪录的铀酰提取效率研究成果为开发海水提铀新技术和新材料提供了新思路和新途径。
2. 设计合成了新型联吡啶嗡盐离子型 COF 材料，实现了不同条件下放射性锝的选择性吸附；通过卤代策略调控了聚合物与锝之间的结合能力，分别实现了强酸、强碱条件下锝的选择性分离提取；设计开发的碳笼包覆 Ru 吸附-电催化剂， 实现了强酸和 Hanford 条件下锝选择性还原提取。研究成果有望应用于我国乏燃料处理中锝的选择性分离提取。
研究团队在国内外学术期刊 Nature Communications、Angewandte Chemie International Edition、Advanced Materials、CCS Chemistry 等发表论文 50 余篇，其中热点论文和高被引论文 23 篇，授权国家发明专利 22 项。研究成果被同领域专家和学者大量引用和正面评价。
代表性成果：
(1) Hui Yang, Xiaolu Liu, Mengjie Hao, Yinghui Xie, Xiangke Wang*, He Tian*, Geoffrey I. N. Waterhouse, Paul E. Kruger, Shane G. Telfer, Shengqian Ma*. Functionalized Iron-Nitrogen-Carbon Electrocatalyst Provides a Reversible Electron Transfer Platform for Efficient Uranium Extraction from Seawater. Advanced Materials, 2021, 33, 2106621. (IF=30.849)
(2) Zhongshan Chen, Jingyi Wang, Mengjie Hao, Yinghui Xie, Xiaolu Liu, Hui Yang*, Geoffrey I. N.Waterhouse, Xiangke Wang*, Shengqian Ma*. Tuning Excited State Electronic Structure and Charge Transport in Covalent Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Photocatalytic Performance. Nature Communications, 2023, 14, 1106. (IF=14.919)
(3) Hui Yang*, Mengjie Hao, Yinghui Xie, Xiaolu Liu, Yanfang Liu, Zhongshan Chen, XiangkeWang*, Geoffrey I. N. Waterhouse, Shengqian Ma*. Tuning Local Charge Distribution in Multicomponent Covalent Organic Frameworks for Dramatically Enhanced Photocatalytic Uranium Extraction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, 62, e202303129. (IF=15.336)
(4) Xiaolu Liu, Yinghui Xie, Mengjie Hao, Zhongshan Chen, Hui Yang*, Geoffrey I.N. Waterhouse, Shengqian Ma*, Xiangke Wang*. Highly Efficient Electrocatalytic Uranium Extraction from Seawater over an Amidoxime-Functionalized In–N–C Catalyst. Advanced Science, 2022, 9, 2201735. (IF=16.806)
(5) Mengjie Hao, Yinghui Xie, Xiaolu Liu, Zhongshan Chen, Hui Yang*, Geoffrey I.N. Waterhouse, Shengqian Ma*, Xiangke Wang*. Modulating Uranium Extraction Performance of Multivariate Covalent Organic Frameworks through Donor-Acceptor Linkers and Amidoxime Nanotraps. JACS Au, 2023, 3, 239-251. (IF=8)
(6) Xinyi Yang, Weijin Wu, Yinghui Xie, Mengjie Hao, Xiaolu Liu, Zhongshan Chen, Hui Yang*, Geoffrey I N Waterhouse, Shengqian Ma*, Xiangke Wang*. Modulating Anion Nanotraps via Halogenation for High-Efficiency 99TcO4−/ReO4− Removal under Wide-Ranging pH Conditions. Environmental Science & Technology, 2023, 57, 10870-10881. (IF=9.028)
(7) Mengjie Hao, Zhongshan Chen, Xiaolu Liu, Xianhai Liu, Juyao Zhang, Hui Yang*, Geoffrey I. N. Waterhouse, Xiangke Wang*, Shengqian Ma*. Converging Cooperative Functions into the Nanospace of Covalent Organic Frameworks for Efficient Uranium Extraction from Seawater. CCS Chemistry, 2022, 4, 2294-2307. (IF=11.2)
(8) Xiaolu Liu, Gaurav Verma, Zhongshan Chen, Baowei Hu, Qifei Huang, Hui Yang*, Shengqian Ma*, Xiangke Wang*. Metal-organic Framework Nanocrystal-Derived Hollow Porousmaterials: Synthetic Strategies and Emerging Applications. The Innovation, 2022, 3, 100281. (IF=32.1)