Stable Covalent Organic Frameworks as Efficient Adsorbents for High and Selective Removal of an Aryl-Organophosphorus Flame Retardant from Water

• Published in: ACS applied materials & interfaces Vol. 10; no. 36; pp. 30265 - 30272
• Main Authors: Wang, Wei, Deng, Shubo, Ren, Lu, Li, Danyang, Wang, Wenjing, Vakili, Mohammadtaghi, Wang, Bin, Huang, Jun, Wang, Yujue, Yu, Gang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 12.09.2018
• Subjects: acid tolerance; adsorbents; adsorption; ambient temperature; aqueous solutions; density functional theory; energy; flame retardants; municipal wastewater; phosphates; pollutants; porosity; remediation; thermal stability; selective adsorption; covalent organic frameworks; organophosphorus flame retardant; adsorption mechanism; triphenyl phosphate

A critical challenge in environmental remediation is the design of adsorbents with proper pore size for the removal of organic pollutants. Three covalent organic frameworks (COFs) with different pore sizes were successfully prepared by a room-temperature solution–suspension method and used to remove...