Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages 3925-3936Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b18704
Keywords
heterogeneous electro-Fenton; porous polymeric frameworks; phase inversion; postsynthetic grafting; strong metal-support interaction
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21236008, 21476206, 21506193, 21736009]
- Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [LY18B060010]
- Minjiang Scholarship from Fujian Provincial Government
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A facile postsynthetic amidoxime modification method was reported on the preparation of transition-metal ions (Mn, Fe, and Co)-polyacrylonitrile (PAN) polymeric beads complex as reusable catalysts for efficient and stable heterogeneous electro-Fenton oxidation. Through one-step phase inversion, low-cost and chemically resistant polymeric PAN beads were fabricated on a large scale with controllable sizes and abundant porous structure. The postfunctionalization strategy led more active sites to be uniformly distributed into modified PAN beads owing to the favorable channel confined effect and chelate coordination. Compared with pure PAN beads, the modified composite catalysts exhibited remarkably higher activity and stability in electro-Fenton oxidation over wide pH range of 3-10 without any addition of H2O2. By analysis, the grafted amidoxime group was extremely beneficial for improving metal loading and binding force between active sites and organic supports, which accelerated the active sites autocatalytic cycle to promote H2O2 activation by means of excited electron transfer from composites' functional groups. The catalytic activity of Mn-amidoximated PAN evaluated by the turnover frequency was 15 times more than that of traditional iron oxide and very competitive to the reported metal-organic framework-based composites. Moreover, a strong metal and polymeric support interaction significantly enhanced the stabilization of active sites dispersed in porous matrix and solved the ever-present problem of metallic ions leaching to the greatest extent. The scalable introduction of functionalities into sophisticated structures after host framework synthesis will bring valuable insights to develop highly efficient and stable heterogeneous catalysts for green electrochemical oxidation in practical application.
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