Uranium is one of the most dangerous radioactive metals, which is widely existing in waste water with uranium from nuclear fuel preparation, irradiated fuel treatment mining production activities and etc, which badly endangers aquatic ecosystems and human health. Adsorption has been found to be superior to the other techniques including simplicity, high efficiency, economical, good selectivity and so on. The adsorption materials applied for U(VI) removal and separation from water in recent three years is summarized. The typical adsorption materials of inorganic material, bio-derived material, organic material and inorganic-organic composite material were mainly introduced in terms of preparation processes, structure characteristics and adsorption properties. The research direction of adsorbent for U(VI) removal and separation in water was outlooked.