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Cu 0.5 Ni 0.5 Fe 2 O 4 -reduced graphene oxide composites (CNF-rGO) as an efficient adsorbent for the adsorption of uranium (VI) have been synthesized by a two-steps methods. The structures and the physicochemical properties of adsorbents are characterized by Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy (RAMAN) and Vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) measurement. It was found that rGO were exfoliated and decorated homogeneously with CNF nanoparticles having diameters of 20 nm. The saturated magnetization (Ms) value was estimated to be 60 emu/g, remanences (Mr) and coercive forces (Hc) near to zero, indicating that obtained material is superparamagnetic. The pH effect, contact time and adsorption isotherms were examined in batch experiments. The adsorption isotherm agreed well with the Langmuir model, having a maximum adsorption capacity of 256 mg/g, at pH = 6, T = 298 K.

NiFe 2 O 4 superparamagnetic nanoparticles have been prepared by the method of sprayingco-precipitation subsequent by hydrothermal treatment. This procedure allowed to produce efficiently nanoparticles with high performances. Different techniques such as XRD, TEM, EDX, VSM were used to investigate the morphology, structure and magnetic properties of the obtained materials. It is shown that the materials have face-centered cubic trevorite structure, and their degree of crystallinity and magnetic properties improved with increasing temperature and time of hydrothermal treatment. After 32 hours of hydrothermal treatment at 160 C, NiFe 2 O 4 nanomaterial has particle size of about 23 nm and saturation magnetization (Ms) of 49 emu/g.