Journal
ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 30, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201705479
Keywords
amidoxime chelating groups; covalent organic frameworks; environmental remediation; radionuclide sequestration; uranium capture
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- DOE Office of Nuclear Energy's Nuclear Energy University Program [DE-NE0008281]
- US National Science Foundation [CBET-1706025]
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-AC02-76SF00515]
- Department of Energy
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The potential consequences of nuclear events and the complexity of nuclear waste management motivate the development of selective solid-phase sorbents to provide enhanced protection. Herein, it is shown that 2D covalent organic frameworks (COFs) with unique structures possess all the traits to be well suited as a platform for the deployment of highly efficient sorbents such that they exhibit remarkable performance, as demonstrated by uranium capture. The chelating groups laced on the open 1D channels exhibit exceptional accessibility, allowing significantly higher utilization efficiency. In addition, the 2D extended polygons packed closely in an eclipsed fashion bring chelating groups in adjacent layers parallel to each other, which may facilitate their cooperation, thereby leading to high affinity toward specific ions. As a result, the amidoxime-functionalized COFs far outperform their corresponding amorphous analogs in terms of adsorption capacities, kinetics, and affinities. Specifically, COF-TpAb-AO is able to reduce various uranium contaminated water samples from 1 ppm to less than 0.1 ppb within several minutes, well below the drinking water limit (30 ppb), as well as mine uranium from spiked seawater with an exceptionally high uptake capacity of 127 mg g(-1). These results delineate important synthetic advances toward the implementation of COFs in environmental remediation.
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