The Nuclear Chemistry Group was established in 2006. About 33 researchers form a vigorous multidisciplinary team in nuclear chemistry. The team's research focuses on key areas including reprocessing technologies for spent fuel, the production and efficient separation of medical isotopes, and the study of the chemical properties of superheavy elements. 

The group actively engages in extensive international cooperation and exchanges, establishing long-term and stable collaborations with several well-known international institutions, such as the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Russia, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland, RIKEN in Japan, and the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ATOMKI).

In recent years, numerous scientific research achievements have been published in Chemical Engineering Journal, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Inorganic Chemistry, Ceramics International, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Radiochimica Acta and other internationally renowned academic journals, and more than 10 Chinese invention patents have been authorized.

1. Spent nuclear fuel reprocessing and refabrication

2. Medical isotopes based on accelerators

3. Chemical properties of superheavy elements

(1) Jia Z, Wang Y, Cao S, et al. LEGEND - A detection system for next-generation gas-adsorption thermochromatography experiments with Nh. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 2025;1072:170166.

(2) Zhang B, Ning Z, Huang Q, et al. Radiation-tolerant graphene oxide-carbon quantum dots composite membrane for actinium-225 solution deacidification. Separation and Purification Technology. 2025;379:135043.

(3) Gao R, Wang J, Tian W, et al. Hierarchical macro/mesoporous γ-Al2 O3 as column matrix for development of low specific activity 99 Mo/99m Tc generator via100 Mo (γ, n)99 Mo reaction. Radiochimica Acta. 2025;113(3):203-212.

(4) Tan C, Cao S, Gao R, et al. Automated preparation of Actinium-225 with accelerator-based production from irradiated natural thorium targets. Separation and Purification Technology. 2025;354:129371.

(5) Fan F, Cheng N, Jin Z, et al. Highly selective separation of medical isotope 99mTc from irradiated 100Mo target using PEG-based resins. J Radioanal Nucl Chem. 2023;332(4):1113-1123.

(6) Lin M, Tian W, Wang J, et al. Optimization of target system for the production of 99Mo via 100Mo(γ,n)99Mo reaction. Applied Radiation and Isotopes. 2023;202:111059.

(7) Lin M, Wang Y, Qin Z. Determination of detection efficiency on HPGe detector for point-like and volumetric samples based on Geant4 simulations. Applied Radiation and Isotopes. 2023;200:110989.

(8) Wang J, Gao R, Cao S, et al. Production of medical isotope 68Ge based on a novel chromatography separation technique and assembling of 68Ge/68Ga generator. Applied Radiation and Isotopes. 2023;192:110599.

(9) Zimeng Jia, Yunfei Cui,…, Jing Bai, Amidoximated graphene/konjac glucomannan composite gel for uranium extraction from saline lake brine, Environmental science and innovation, 25 (2022)102214

(10) J. R. Wang, R. Q. Gao, Q. G. Huang, et al. Practicality of hierarchically macro/mesoporous γ-Al2O3 as a promising sorbent in the preparation of low specific activity 99Mo/99mTc generator. Appl. Radiat. Isotopes. 2021, 178, 109986.

(11) J. Bai, J. Chu, X. Yin, J. Wang, W. Tian, Q. Huang, Z. Jia, X. Wu, H. Guo, Z. Qin, Synthesis of amidoximated polyacrylonitrile nanoparticle/graphene composite hydrogel for selective uranium sorption from saline lake brine, Chemical Engineering Journal. 391(2020)123553

(12) H. Haba, F. Fan, D. Kaji, et al. Production of 266Bh in the 248Cm(23Na,5n)266Bh reaction and its decay properties. Physical Review C. 2020, 102, 024625

(13) F. L. Fan, D. S. Chen, Q. G. Huang, et al. Radiation effect on ionic liquid [Hbet][Tf2N] for Nd2O3 separation from simulated spent nuclear fuels. J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem., 2020, 326(1), 497-502

(14) F. L. Fan, Z. Qin, S. W. Cao, C. M. Tan, Q. G. Huang, D. S. Chen, J. R. Wang, X. J. Yin, C. Xu, X. G. Feng. Highly efficient and selective dissolution separation of fission products by an ionic liquid [Hbet][Tf2N]: a new approach to spent nuclear fuel recycling. Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58 (1), 603-609.

(15) Y. Wang, S. W. Cao, J. C. Zhang, F. L. Fan, J. Yang, H. Haba, Y. Komori, T. Yokokita, K. Morimoto, D. Kaji, Y. Wittwer, R. Eichler, A. Türler, Z. Qin. The study of rhenium pentacarbonyl complexes using single-atom chemistry in the gas phase. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21(13):7147-7154.

(16) F. L. Fan, C. M. Tan, J. R. Wang, W. Tian, Z. Qin. Study on the phase separation behavior of (U,Nd)3O8 powder by high temperature oxidation. J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem., 2019, 320(1): 235–243.

(17) Wei Tian, M.A.Pouchon, HangxuGuo, DengleiChen, XiaojieYin, Zhi Qin*. Fabrication of CeO2 ceramic spheres as a surrogate of nuclear fuel by an improved microwave-assisted rapid internal gelation process. Ceramics International. 2018, 44:6739-6746.

(18) Wei Tian, Hangxu Guo, Desheng Chen, M.A. Pouchon, Alina Horwege, Xiaojie Yin, Qinggang Huang, Jieru Wang, Shiwei Cao, Denglei Chen, Jing Bai, Cunmin Tan, Fangli Fan, Xiaolei Wu, Tielong Shen, Zhi Qin. Preparation of UC ceramic nuclear fuel microspheres by combination of an improved microwave-assisted rapid internal gelation with carbothermic reduction process. Ceramics International. 2018, 44:17945-17952.

(19) Hangxu Guo, Jieru Wang, Denglei Chen, Wei Tian, Shiwei Cao, Desheng Chen, Cunmin Tan, Qihuang Deng, Zhi Qin. Boro/carbothermal reduction synthesis of uranium tetraboride and its oxidation behavior in dry air. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2018.

(20) Hangxu Guo, Jieru Wang, Jing Bai, Shiwei Cao, Denglei Chen, Yalou Sun, Xiaojie Yin, Wei Tian, Cunmin Tan, Qing Huang, Zhi Qin, Qihuang Deng. Low-temperature synthesis of uranium monocarbide by a Pechini‐type in situ polymerizable complex method [J]. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2018, 101(7): 2786-2795.

(21) C. Tan, X. Zhang, S. Cao, S. Li, H. Guo, Y. Tian, D. Chen, Wei. Tian, L. Wang, Z. Qin. Solvent extraction of americium(III) and europium(III) with 2,6-bis (5,6-diethyl-1,2,4-triazin-3-yl) pyridine in ionic liquids: experimental study and molecular dynamics simulation [J], Separation and Purification Technology. 2018, 192:302–308.

(22) X. Yin, J. Bai, W. Tian, S. Li, J. Wang, X. Wu, Y. Wang, F. Fan, Q. Huang, Z. Qin, Uranium sorption from saline lake brine by amidoximated silica, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 313(1) (2017) 113-121.

(23) Bai, J., Yin, X. J., Zhu, Y. F., Fan, F. L., Wu, X. L., Tian, W.; Tan, C. M.; Zhang, X.; Wang, Y.; Cao, S. W.; Fan, F. Y.; Qin, Z.*; Guo, J. S. Selective uranium sorption from salt lake brines by amidoximated Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Chem. Eng. J. 2016, 283:889-895.

(24) J. Bai, H. Sun, X. Yin, X. Yin, S. Wang, A.E. Creamer, L. Xu, Z. Qin, F. He, B. Gao, Oxygen-Content-Controllable Graphene Oxide from Electron-Beam-Irradiated Graphite: Synthesis, Characterization, and Removal of Aqueous Lead [Pb(II)], ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8(38) (2016) 25289-25296.

(25) Shiwei Cao, Jieru Wang, Cunmin Tan, Xin Zhang, Sa Li, Wei Tian, Hangxu Guo, Lei Wang and Zhi Qin*. Solvent extraction of americium (Ⅲ) and europium (Ⅲ) with tridentate N, N-dialkyl-1, 10-phenanthroline-2-amide-derived ligands: extraction, complexation and theoretical study. New Journal of Chemistry, 2016, 40(12): 10560-10568.

(26) S. W. Cao, Y. Wang, Z. Qin*, F. L. Fan, H. Haba, Y. Komori, X. L. Wu, C. M. Tan, X. Zhang. Gas-phase chemistry of ruthenium and rhodium carbonyl complexes. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18(1): 119-125.

(27) Y. Wang, Z. Qin, F. L. Fan, H. Haba, Y. Komori, S. W. Cao, X. L. Wu, C. M. Tan. Gas-phase chemistry of technetium carbonyl complexes. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, 17(20):13228-13234.

(28) X. Yin, J. Bai, F. Fan, W. Cheng, W. Tian, Y. Wang, Z. Qin, Amidoximed silica for uranium(VI) sorption from aqueous solution, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 303(3) (2015) 2135-2142.

(29) J. Even, A. Yakushev, Ch. E. Düllmann, H. Haba, M. Asai, T. K. Sato, H. Brand, A. Di Nitto, R. Eichler, F. L. Fan, W. Hartmann, M. Huang, E. Jäger, D. Kaji, J. Kanaya, Y. Kaneya, J. Khuyagbaatar, B. Kindler, J. V. Kratz, J. Krier, Y. Kudou, N. Kurz, B. Lommel, S. Miyashita, K. Morimoto, K. Morita, M. Murakami, Y. Nagame, H. Nitsche, K. Ooe, Z. Qin, M. Schädel, J. Steiner, T. Sumita, M. Takeyama, K. Tanaka, A. Toyoshima, K. Tsukada, A. Türler, I. Usoltsev, Y. Wakabayashi, Y. Wang, N. Wiehl, S. Yamaki. Synthesis and detection of a seaborgium carbonyl complex. Science, 2014, 345(6203):1491-1493.