Porphyrin COF and its mechanical pressing-prepared carbon fiber hybrid membrane for ratiometric detection, removal and enrichment of Cd2+

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.129574
• Publication Date: 2022-07-15T09:55:23Z
• Authors: Wei-Liang Jin; Xuan Ji; Xin-Long Hou; Shi-Yu Ji; Wei Li; Xi Yu; Xiao-Wei Liu; Li-Na Zhu; Hong-Xin Jiang; De-Ming Kong
• Keywords: Porphyrins; Carbon Fiber; Adsorption; 01 natural sciences; Metal-Organic Frameworks; Cadmium; 0105 earth and related environmental sciences

A nitrogen (N), oxygen (O)-rich porphyrin-based covalent organic framework (COF), in which interlayer porphyrin molecules are vertically stacked, is prepared and characterized. As-prepared N,O-rich TpTph COF shows a high adsorption capacity for Cd2+ due to the abundant coordination sites. More interesting, it is found that the formation of COF enlarges the porphyrin ring center space, thus facilitating the Cd2+coordination, and the resulting optical signal changes make the ratiometric detection of Cd2+ possible. Furthermore, using carbon fiber (CF) filaments, which are obtained from low cost and easy-to-obtain actived carbon mask, as support, porphyrin COF-based CF@TpTph membrane is prepared through in-situ growth of COF on the support followed by simple mechanical pressing. The CF@TpTph membrane is demonstrated to work well for both Cd2+ removal and enrichment from soil and water samples, and shows the advantages of ease of handling, robust stability, reduced secondary pollution risk to samples, and good reusability. This work provides a powerful tool for Cd2+ removal and enrichment, exhibits that preparing porphyrin-based COFs is a feasible way to promote the interactions between porphyrin ring and Cd2+, and demonstrates that mechanical pressing is a promising strategy for the design of COF-based monolithic materials to promote the practical applications of COFs.