Inorganics,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
13(5), P. 131 - 131
Published: April 24, 2025
UiO-type
Zr-BDC
MOFs
have
garnered
the
interest
of
scientific
community
due
to
their
exceptional
diversity
in
composition,
structure,
and
chemical
environment,
as
well
high
thermal
stabilities.
This
work
demonstrates
sustainable
synthesis
a
series
nanocrystalline/semicrystalline
UiO-66(Zr)
metal–organic
frameworks
(MOFs)
under
facile
conditions—specifically
at
room
temperature,
water,
with
yield,
without
use
modulators
or
toxic
byproducts.
The
involves
either
deprotonating
linker
utilizing
various
ratios
water
DMF
solvents.
as-prepared
materials
obtained
from
both
strategies
share
key
structural
features
conventional
short-
medium-range
physicochemical
properties,
while
exhibiting
significant
differences
crystallinity
textural
properties.
Nonetheless,
generally
lack
long-range
order
(semicrystalline),
particular
these
synthesized
following
deprotonation
strategy.
However,
prepared
using
mixed
solvent
strategy
seem
exhibit
characteristics
nanocrystalline
UiO-66(Zr).
Overall,
approaches
successfully
addressed
challenges
related
highly
sought-after
Zr-based
(MOFs).
Some
MOF
were
tested
for
photodegradation
rhodamine
B
(RhB)
mercury
light
irradiation,
evidencing
photocatalytic
efficiency
up
75
±
0.078%
within
120
min
pseudo-first-order
model.
suggests
an
interaction
between
photocatalyst
RhB
dye,
involving
electron
injection
ability
ligand-to-metal
charge
transfer
(LMCT),
which
enhances
efficient
degradation
RhB.
trapping
experiments
indicated
that
superoxide
radicals
(•O2−)
photogenerated
holes
(h+)
are
crucial
Moreover,
showed
good
recyclability
across
five
cycles.
A
plausible
reaction
mechanism
has
been
proposed
explain
findings.
Environmental Chemistry Letters,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
22(5), P. 2405 - 2424
Published: June 11, 2024
Abstract
Pollution
and
the
rising
energy
demand
are
two
major
society
issues,
requiring
urgent
solutions.
Here,
we
review
simultaneous
production
of
hydrogen
removal
pollutants,
with
a
focus
on
mechanisms,
synthesis
photocatalysts,
applications.
Remarkably,
this
method
utilizes
organic
pollutants
as
sacrificial
agents
for
photocatalytic
production,
thus
both
reducing
pollution
producing
energy.
Metal-doped,
cocatalyst-loaded,
inorganic
composite,
heterostructure
heterojunction
photocatalysts
described.
We
present
applications
to
antibiotics
dyes.
Pollutant
degradation
rates
range
from
5.3
100%,
evolution
13.7–2724.89
μmol·g
–1
h
.
Catalysis Communications,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
180, P. 106705 - 106705
Published: May 30, 2023
In
this
work,
Bi2WxMo1–xO6
solid
solutions
and
Bi2WO6/g-C3N4
composites
were
synthesized
by
a
simple
hydrothermal
method,
characterized
complex
of
physicochemical
methods
used
in
the
decomposition
organic
pollutants
under
visible
light
to
comprehensively
compare
different
modulating
techniques.
The
highest
efficiency
was
detected
for
Bi2W0.5Mo0.5O6
degradation
methylene
blue
(conversion
52.9%,
TON
=
0.022),
indicating
attractiveness
doping
strategy.
Excellent
results
achieved
with
small
amounts
H2O2
photodegradation
97.9%,
0.040)
phenol
81.2%,
0.056).
Nanoscale Advances,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
4(17), P. 3600 - 3608
Published: Jan. 1, 2022
Semiconductor-containing
porous
materials
with
a
well-defined
structure
could
be
unique
scaffolds
for
carrying
out
selective
organic
transformations
driven
by
visible
light.
We
herein
introduce
the
first
time
heterostructure
of
silver
indium
sulfide
(AgInS2)
ternary
chalcogenide
and
highly
MIL-101(Cr)
metal-organic
framework
(MOF)
synthesised
from
polyethylene
terephthalate
plastic
waste.
Our
results
demonstrate
that
AgInS2
nanoparticles
were
uniformly
attached
to
each
lattice
plane
octahedral
structure,
resulting
in
nanocomposite
high
distribution
semiconductors
media.
also
up
40%
doping
exhibited
excellent
catalytic
activity
tetracycline
degradation
under
light
irradiation
(∼99%
degraded
after
4
h)
predominantly
maintained
its
performance
five
cycles.
These
promote
new
material
circularity
pathway
develop
can
used
protect
water
further
pollution.
Catalysts,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
12(11), P. 1427 - 1427
Published: Nov. 13, 2022
In
the
present
work,
we
assessed
photocatalytic
performance
of
new
3-D/3-D
Z-scheme
heterojunction
composite
for
degradation
dimethyl
phthalate
(DMP).
The
was
composed
by
marimo-like
Bi2WO6
and
mammillaria-like
ZnO
which
named
BWZ.
successfully
fabricated
using
a
hydrothermal-precipitation
method
analyzed
via
different
characterization
techniques.
Under
natural
sunlight
irradiation,
optimal
with
20
wt%
Bi2WO6/ZnO
(20-BWZ)
exhibited
photodegradation
rate
constant
0.0259
min−1,
reached
2.3
5.9-folds
greater
than
those
pure
(0.0112
min−1)
(0.0044
min−1),
respectively.
That
predominantly
attributed
to
formation
system
in
as-synthesized
reduced
charge
carrier
recombination
accelerated
photoactivity.
Transient
photocurrent
response
electrochemical
impedance
spectroscopy
analyses
were
performed
confirm
this
conclusion.
reusability
test
indicated
that
20-BWZ
had
no
significant
deactivation
after
four
runs,
inferred
good
stability
as-prepared
composite.
Furthermore,
quenching
demonstrated
photogenerated
hole,
superoxide
anion
radical
hydroxyl
all
involved
DMP,
among
•OH
principal
reactive
species.
This
work
revealed
BWZ
composites
have
great
potential
applications
refractory
pollutants
environmental
remediation
field.
