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A novel amidoxime-based adsorbent of titanium-molybdopyrophosphate-g-amidoxime (TMP-g-AO) was prepared by chemical coprecipitation and subsequent chemical modifications. The successful grafting of acrylonitrile group and the subsequent conversion of acrylonitrile group to amidoxime groups were characterized by scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, N2–BET, and thermal analysis. The adsorption behavior of uranium(VI) on TMP-g-AO was investigated for low concentration uranium solution by batch experiments at a fixed pH of 8.2 ± 0.1. It is found that the adsorption rate of uranium from solution was 99.77% when the uranium concentration was 42.3 μg/L, pH = 8.2 ± 0.1, temperature = 298.15 K, and the adsorbent dosage = 0.05 g. The kinetic data follow the pseudo-second-order model, and adsorption equilibrium data fit the Langmuir model well. The thermodynamics parameters (ΔS, ΔH, and ΔG) indicate that the adsorption ...