Construction of covalent-integrated MOFs@COFs composite material for efficient synergistic adsorption and degradation of pollutants

Titanium metal-organic frameworks (Ti-MOFs) are very attractive artificial photocatalysts for their good photo-redox activity. However, due to the poor visible light responsiveness of Ti-MOFs, the solar energy conversion efficiency is greatly limited. Herein, this paper adopts a covalent-integrated strategy to combine Ti-MOFs and covalent organic frameworks (COFs) with triazine frameworks through covalent bonding to construct MOFs@COFs Z-scheme heterojunction composite material. This material broadens the visible light response range and has suitable band gap and more active sites. It is noteworthy that composite material exhibits high synergistic adsorption and degradation performance for photocatalytic high concentration of bisphenol A (BPA). Thanks to the efficient photo-generating electron and hole transport, NM-125(Ti)(0.4)@TpTta-COF achieves synergistic adsorption and degradation of 100 ppm BPA within 10 mins, which is more efficient than other materials. Furthermore, this material exhibits high stability and universality, which provides a feasible strategy for designing and synthesizing photocatalytic materials with high light response.

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In this paper, a covalent-integrated strategy is adopted to construct a MOFs@COFs Z-scheme heterojunction composite material consisting of Ti-MOFs and COFs. This material exhibits a broader visible light response range and higher adsorption and degradation performance, making it a promising photocatalytic material.