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Title: Rapid, Selective Heavy Metal Removal from Water by a Metal–Organic Framework/Polydopamine Composite

Abstract

Drinking water contamination with heavy metals, particularly lead, is a persistent problem worldwide with grave public health consequences. Existing purification methods often cannot address this problem quickly and economically. Here we report a cheap, water stable metal–organic framework/polymer composite, Fe-BTC/PDA, that exhibits rapid, selective removal of large quantities of heavy metals, such as Pb2+ and Hg2+, from real world water samples. In this work, Fe-BTC is treated with dopamine, which undergoes a spontaneous polymerization to polydopamine (PDA) within its pores via the Fe3+ open metal sites. The PDA, pinned on the internal MOF surface, gains extrinsic porosity, resulting in a composite that binds up to 1634 mg of Hg2+ and 394 mg of Pb2+ per gram of composite and removes more than 99.8% of these ions from a 1 ppm solution, yielding drinkable levels in seconds. Further, the composite properties are well-maintained in river and seawater samples spiked with only trace amounts of lead, illustrating unprecedented selectivity. Remarkably, no significant uptake of competing metal ions is observed even when interferents, such as Na+, are present at concentrations up to 14 000 times that of Pb2+. The material is further shown to be resistant to fouling when tested in high concentrationsmore » of common organic interferents, like humic acid, and is fully regenerable over many cycles.« less

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  1. Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1051 Sion, Switzerland
  2. Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1051 Sion, Switzerland, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
  3. The Molecular Foundry, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
  4. Interdisciplinary Center for Electron Microscopy, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF); German Research Foundation (DFG)
OSTI Identifier:
1426013
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1494086; OSTI ID: 1508765; OSTI ID: 1508766
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; PYAPP2_160581; SPP 1570
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
ACS Central Science
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: ACS Central Science Journal Volume: 4 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2374-7943
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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Sun, Daniel T., Peng, Li, Reeder, Washington S., Moosavi, Seyed Mohamad, Tiana, Davide, Britt, David K., Oveisi, Emad, and Queen, Wendy L. Rapid, Selective Heavy Metal Removal from Water by a Metal–Organic Framework/Polydopamine Composite. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1021/acscentsci.7b00605.
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Sun, Daniel T., Peng, Li, Reeder, Washington S., Moosavi, Seyed Mohamad, Tiana, Davide, Britt, David K., Oveisi, Emad, & Queen, Wendy L. Rapid, Selective Heavy Metal Removal from Water by a Metal–Organic Framework/Polydopamine Composite. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.7b00605
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Sun, Daniel T., Peng, Li, Reeder, Washington S., Moosavi, Seyed Mohamad, Tiana, Davide, Britt, David K., Oveisi, Emad, and Queen, Wendy L. Wed . "Rapid, Selective Heavy Metal Removal from Water by a Metal–Organic Framework/Polydopamine Composite". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.7b00605.
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@article{osti_1426013,
title = {Rapid, Selective Heavy Metal Removal from Water by a Metal–Organic Framework/Polydopamine Composite},
author = {Sun, Daniel T. and Peng, Li and Reeder, Washington S. and Moosavi, Seyed Mohamad and Tiana, Davide and Britt, David K. and Oveisi, Emad and Queen, Wendy L.},
abstractNote = {Drinking water contamination with heavy metals, particularly lead, is a persistent problem worldwide with grave public health consequences. Existing purification methods often cannot address this problem quickly and economically. Here we report a cheap, water stable metal–organic framework/polymer composite, Fe-BTC/PDA, that exhibits rapid, selective removal of large quantities of heavy metals, such as Pb2+ and Hg2+, from real world water samples. In this work, Fe-BTC is treated with dopamine, which undergoes a spontaneous polymerization to polydopamine (PDA) within its pores via the Fe3+ open metal sites. The PDA, pinned on the internal MOF surface, gains extrinsic porosity, resulting in a composite that binds up to 1634 mg of Hg2+ and 394 mg of Pb2+ per gram of composite and removes more than 99.8% of these ions from a 1 ppm solution, yielding drinkable levels in seconds. Further, the composite properties are well-maintained in river and seawater samples spiked with only trace amounts of lead, illustrating unprecedented selectivity. Remarkably, no significant uptake of competing metal ions is observed even when interferents, such as Na+, are present at concentrations up to 14 000 times that of Pb2+. The material is further shown to be resistant to fouling when tested in high concentrations of common organic interferents, like humic acid, and is fully regenerable over many cycles.},
doi = {10.1021/acscentsci.7b00605},
journal = {ACS Central Science},
number = 3,
volume = 4,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Mar 14 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Wed Mar 14 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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Figure 1 Figure 1: Characterization of Fe-BTC/PDA. (Left) Polyhedral view of a large cage in the Fe-BTC with PDA embedded inside the channels. The purple sphere represents the void space inside of the cage prior to the dopamine addition. (Top) The simulated XRD pattern of Fe-BTC (black) compared to the synchrotron XRDmore » data (λ = 0.50084 Å) of Fe-BTC (red) and Fe-BTC/PDA-19 (blue). (Bottom) X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy data obtained from the N 1s spectrum of FeBTC/PDA-19.« less
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