The overall need for the preparation of new medicinal radionuclides has led to the fast development of new sorption materials, extraction agents, and separation methods. Inorganic ion exchangers, mainly hydrous oxides, are the most widely used materials for the separation of medicinal radionuclides. One of the materials that has been studied for a long time is cerium dioxide, a competitive sorption material for the broadly used titanium dioxide. In this study, cerium dioxide was prepared through calcination of ceric nitrate and fully characterized using X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD), infrared spectrometry (FT-IR), scanning and transmission electron microscopy (SEM and TEM), thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis (TG and DTA), dynamic light scattering (DLS), and analysis of surface area. In order to estimate the sorption mechanism and capacity of the prepared material, characterization of surface functional groups was carried out using acid-base titration and mathematical modeling. Subsequently, the sorption capacity of the prepared material for germanium was measured. It can be stated that the prepared material is prone to exchange anionic species in a wider range of pH than titanium dioxide. This characteristic makes the material superior as a matrix in 68Ge/68Ga radionuclide generators, and its suitability should be further studied in batch, kinetic, and column experiments.

Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering Czech Technical University Prague Břehová 7 115 19 Prague Czech Republic

Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry Czech Academy of Sciences Heyrovského náměstí 2 162 06 Prague Czech Republic

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