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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 142, Issue 18, Pages 8252-8261Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c00555
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- IISER-Kolkata start-up grant
- DST-Swarna Jayanti Fellowship grant [DST/SJF/CSA-02/2016-2017]
- DST Mission Innovation [DST/TM/EWO/MI/CCUS/17, DST/TMD(EWO)/IC5-2018/01(C)]
- UGC
- CSIR
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The induction of macro and mesopores into two-dimensional porous covalent organic frameworks (COFs) could enhance the exposure of the intrinsic micropores toward the pollutant environment, thereby, improving the performance. However, the challenge is to build a continuous hierarchically porous macro-architecture of crystalline organic materials in the bulk scale. In this regard, we have strategized a novel synthetic method to create hierarchically porous COF foams consisting of ordered micropores (2-2.2 nm) and disordered meso and macropores (50 nm to 200 mu m) as well as ordered macropores (1.5 mm to 2 cm). Herein, graphene oxide was used for creating disordered macro and mesopores in COF-GO foams. Considering the rheological features of the precursor hydrogel, we could integrate crystalline and porous COF-GO foams into self-supported three-dimensional (3D)-printed objects with the desired shapes and sizes. Therefore, we have engineered the 3D macro-architecture of COF-GO foams into complex geometries keeping their structural order and continuous porosity intact over a range of more than a million (10(-9) m to 10(-3) m). The interconnected 3D openings in these COF-GO foams further enhance the rapid and efficient uptake of organic and inorganic pollutants from water (>95% removal within 30 s). The abundant distribution of interconnected macroporous volume (55%) throughout the COF-GO foam matrix enhances the flow of water (1.13 x 10(-3) m.s(-1)) which results in efficient mass transport and adsorption.
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