Tuning the Wettability of Metal–Organic Frameworks via Defect Engineering for Efficient Oil/Water Separation | Zendy

Yi Huang | Zendy; Yang Jiao | Zendy; Ting Chen | Zendy; Yutao Gong | Zendy; Songcheng Wang | Zendy; Yang Liu | Zendy; David S. Sholl | Zendy; Krista S. Walton | Zendy

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Tuning the Wettability of Metal–Organic Frameworks via Defect Engineering for Efficient Oil/Water Separation

Author(s) -

Yi Huang,

Yang Jiao,

Ting Chen,

Yutao Gong,

Songcheng Wang,

Yang Liu,

David S. Sholl,

Krista S. Walton

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

acs applied materials and interfaces

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.535

H-Index - 228

eISSN - 1944-8252

pISSN - 1944-8244

DOI - 10.1021/acsami.0c08803

Subject(s) - materials science , wetting , metal organic framework , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , metal , separation (statistics) , organic chemistry , composite material , metallurgy , adsorption , chemistry , engineering , machine learning , computer science

Zirconium-based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have attracted interest due to their chemical and thermal stabilities and structural tunability. In this work, we demonstrate the tuning of the wettability of a UiO-66 structure via defect-engineering for efficient oil/water separation. UiO-66 crystals with controlled levels of missing-linker defects were synthesized using a modulation approach. As a result, the hydrophilicity of the defect-engineered UiO-66 (d-UiO-66) can be varied. In addition, a thin layer of hydrophilic d-UiO-66 was successfully fabricated on a series of stainless steel meshes (d-UiO-66@mesh), which exhibited excellent superhydrophilic and underwater superoleophobic properties and displayed interesting separation performance for various oil/water mixtures.

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