@article{
author = "Lou, Xiaofei and Wu, Yi-nan and Kabtamu, Daniel Manaye and Matović, Ljiljana and Zhang, Yanxing and Sun, Xianyi and Schott, Eduardo and Chu, Wenhai and Li, Fengting",
year = "2021",
abstract = "Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), an exciting class of porous crystalline materials, are suitable for adsorptive removal of toxic heavy metal-ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (M-EDTA) complexes from wastewater. In this paper, water-stable UiO-66(Zr) with well-defined morphology was successfully synthesized through a facile microwave-assisted solvothermal method and employed as nanotraps for the efficient capture of the three M-EDTA complexes, Cu-EDTA, Pb-EDTA, and Ni-EDTA. The adsorption behaviors, effects of solution pH and co-existing anions, as well as the eluant and desorption were investigated. The obtained UiO-66(Zr) showed good stability and excellent uptake capacity of M-EDTA in a wide pH range (3.0-10.0). UiO-66(Zr) exhibited a higher removal efficiency of Cu-EDTA (57.56 mg/g), Pb-EDTA (120.6 mg/g), and Ni-EDTA (54.27 mg/g). Based on the overall analysis results, our findings show that EDTA-metal complex ions can be adsorbed inside UiO-66(Zr) mainly through the Lewis-acid/-base interactions and possible anion-πinteraction with strong binding energies. Size-matching EDTA-metal complexes confined in the UiO-66(Zr) with flexible geometry would also contribute to the fast adsorption kinetics as well as the selective adsorption of different M-EDTA complexes. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd.",
journal = "Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering",
title = "Exploring UiO-66(Zr) frameworks as nanotraps for highly efficient removal of EDTA-complexed heavy metals from water",
volume = "9",
number = "1",
pages = "104932",
doi = "10.1016/j.jece.2020.104932"
}