“…Cellulose, the most abundant natural organic polymer with nontoxic, renewable, biodegradable, and other unique properties, has been proven to be one of the most promising adsorbents for uranium removal. − To date, a series of cellulose-based uranium adsorption materials with different functional ligands, such as amidoxime, , phosphate, , carboxyl, and amino, have been utilized in uranium adsorption. Among them, amidoxime is the most widely reported, for the fact that the electron donors in the amidoxime structure allow the adsorbents with high chelating affinity and selectivity toward UO 2 2+ .…”