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Coupling metal-organic frameworks and wood-based carbon for water remediation

Show Author's Information Akhter Zia1,§,  Manish Neupane2,§,  Aidan McGlone1,§,  Rui He3,  Ruikun Xin4,  Yifeng Liu5,  Qiangu Yan6,  Jinwu Wang6,  Ling Li7,  Zhiyong Cai6,  Pei Dong3( ),  Yingchao Yang1,2( )
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Department of Mechanical Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Forest Products Laboratory, USDA, Madison, WI 53726, USA
School of Forestry Resources, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA

§ Akhter Zia, Manish Neupane, and Aidan McGlone contributed equally to this work.

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methyl orange, basswood carbon, MOFs@carbon, metal-organic framework (MOF)-199
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Zia A, Neupane M, McGlone A, et al. Coupling metal-organic frameworks and wood-based carbon for water remediation. Nano Research, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-024-6490-z
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Fresh and clean water is highly demanded throughout the world. To effectively address the need, nanomaterials enabled nanotechnology has been explored as a means of more efficient, reliable, and environmentally friendly approach towards water treatment practices. One concern in adopting nanomaterials is how to retrieve them from water body to avoid secondary contamination. In this work, the earth abundant and sustainable wood, e.g., basswood, was selected and carbonized into porous carbon as host skeleton, and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), e.g., MOF-199 with extremely high surface area, were grown throughout all channels in the porous basswood carbon. Targeting the traditional organic pollutant, methyl orange (MO), the combination of MOFs and basswood carbon (MOFs@carbon) demonstrates a remarkable adsorption capacity, which is 243% and 454% higher than basswood carbon and MOF-199, respectively. Such an outstanding adsorption performance originates from that the positively charged carbon pulls MO molecules close to carbon surface, leading to a high MO molecule concentration, and then the concentration gradient drives the MO molecules to be stored inside MOFs, functioning like pockets. These findings highlight the potential application of coupled MOFs and biomass carbon in addressing water remediation.


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Coupling metal-organic frameworks and wood-based carbon for water remediation

Show Author's information Akhter Zia1,§, Manish Neupane2,§, Aidan McGlone1,§, Rui He3, Ruikun Xin4, Yifeng Liu5, Qiangu Yan6, Jinwu Wang6, Ling Li7, Zhiyong Cai6, Pei Dong3( ), Yingchao Yang1,2( )
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Department of Mechanical Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Forest Products Laboratory, USDA, Madison, WI 53726, USA
School of Forestry Resources, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA

§ Akhter Zia, Manish Neupane, and Aidan McGlone contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Fresh and clean water is highly demanded throughout the world. To effectively address the need, nanomaterials enabled nanotechnology has been explored as a means of more efficient, reliable, and environmentally friendly approach towards water treatment practices. One concern in adopting nanomaterials is how to retrieve them from water body to avoid secondary contamination. In this work, the earth abundant and sustainable wood, e.g., basswood, was selected and carbonized into porous carbon as host skeleton, and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), e.g., MOF-199 with extremely high surface area, were grown throughout all channels in the porous basswood carbon. Targeting the traditional organic pollutant, methyl orange (MO), the combination of MOFs and basswood carbon (MOFs@carbon) demonstrates a remarkable adsorption capacity, which is 243% and 454% higher than basswood carbon and MOF-199, respectively. Such an outstanding adsorption performance originates from that the positively charged carbon pulls MO molecules close to carbon surface, leading to a high MO molecule concentration, and then the concentration gradient drives the MO molecules to be stored inside MOFs, functioning like pockets. These findings highlight the potential application of coupled MOFs and biomass carbon in addressing water remediation.

Keywords: methyl orange, basswood carbon, MOFs@carbon, metal-organic framework (MOF)-199

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Received: 29 September 2023
Revised: 05 January 2024
Accepted: 15 January 2024
Published: 07 March 2024

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J. W. W., Z. Y. C., and Y. C. Y. acknowledge the financial support from the USDA Forest Service (No. 20-JV-11111124-035). Y. C. Y. and P. D. acknowledge the financial support from the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (No. R19AC00116). Y. C. Y. thanks Dr. Y. Q. Meng in Idaho National Laboratory for helping on BET measurement.

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