Efficient Mercury Capture Using Functionalized Porous Organic Polymer
Abstract
The primary challenge in materials design and synthesis is achieving the balance between performance and economy for real-world application. Here, this issue is addressed by creating a thiol functionalized porous organic polymer (POP) using simple free radical polymerization techniques to prepare a cost-effective material with a high density of chelating sites designed for mercury capture and therefore environmental remediation. The resulting POP is able to remove aqueous and airborne mercury with uptake capacities of 1216 and 630 mg g -1, respectively. The material demonstrates rapid kinetics, capable of dropping the mercury concentration from 5 ppm to 1 ppb, lower than the US Environmental Protection Agency's drinking water limit (2 ppb), within 10 min. Furthermore, the material has the added benefits of recyclability, stability in a broad pH range, and selectivity for toxic metals. These results are attributed to the material's physical properties, which include hierarchical porosity, a high density of chelating sites, and the material's robustness, which improve the thiol availability to bind with mercury as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and X-ray absorption fine structure studies. Finally, the work provides promising results for POPs as an economical material for multiple environmental remediation applications.
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- Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering
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- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1394551
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; AC02-76SF00515
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 29; Journal Issue: 31; Journal ID: ISSN 0935-9648
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; environmental remediation; heavy metal removal; mercury capture; porous organic polymers; thiol functionality
Citation Formats
Aguila, Briana, Sun, Qi, Perman, Jason A., Earl, Lyndsey D., Abney, Carter W., Elzein, Radwan, Schlaf, Rudy, and Ma, Shengqian. Efficient Mercury Capture Using Functionalized Porous Organic Polymer. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1002/adma.201700665.
Aguila, Briana, Sun, Qi, Perman, Jason A., Earl, Lyndsey D., Abney, Carter W., Elzein, Radwan, Schlaf, Rudy, & Ma, Shengqian. Efficient Mercury Capture Using Functionalized Porous Organic Polymer. United States. doi:10.1002/adma.201700665.
Aguila, Briana, Sun, Qi, Perman, Jason A., Earl, Lyndsey D., Abney, Carter W., Elzein, Radwan, Schlaf, Rudy, and Ma, Shengqian. Wed .
"Efficient Mercury Capture Using Functionalized Porous Organic Polymer". United States. doi:10.1002/adma.201700665.
@article{osti_1394551,
title = {Efficient Mercury Capture Using Functionalized Porous Organic Polymer},
author = {Aguila, Briana and Sun, Qi and Perman, Jason A. and Earl, Lyndsey D. and Abney, Carter W. and Elzein, Radwan and Schlaf, Rudy and Ma, Shengqian},
abstractNote = {The primary challenge in materials design and synthesis is achieving the balance between performance and economy for real-world application. Here, this issue is addressed by creating a thiol functionalized porous organic polymer (POP) using simple free radical polymerization techniques to prepare a cost-effective material with a high density of chelating sites designed for mercury capture and therefore environmental remediation. The resulting POP is able to remove aqueous and airborne mercury with uptake capacities of 1216 and 630 mg g-1, respectively. The material demonstrates rapid kinetics, capable of dropping the mercury concentration from 5 ppm to 1 ppb, lower than the US Environmental Protection Agency's drinking water limit (2 ppb), within 10 min. Furthermore, the material has the added benefits of recyclability, stability in a broad pH range, and selectivity for toxic metals. These results are attributed to the material's physical properties, which include hierarchical porosity, a high density of chelating sites, and the material's robustness, which improve the thiol availability to bind with mercury as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and X-ray absorption fine structure studies. Finally, the work provides promising results for POPs as an economical material for multiple environmental remediation applications.},
doi = {10.1002/adma.201700665},
journal = {Advanced Materials},
issn = {0935-9648},
number = 31,
volume = 29,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {6}
}
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