Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

A mesoporous cationic thorium-organic framework that rapidly traps anionic persistent organic pollutants

  • Yuxiang Li,
  • Zaixing Yang,
  • Yanlong Wang,
  • Zhuanling Bai,
  • Tao Zheng,
  • Xing Dai,
  • Shengtang Liu,
  • Daxiang Gui,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Meng Chen,
  • Lanhua Chen,
  • Juan Diwu,
  • Lingyan Zhu,
  • Ruhong Zhou,
  • Zhifang Chai,
  • Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt,
  • Shuao Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01208-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Cationic metal-organic frameworks provide promising opportunities to capture anionic pollutants, but stable frameworks with sufficiently large pores are lacking. Here the authors present a thorium-based mesoporous, cationic and hydrolytically-stable MOF that can rapidly trap inorganic and organic anionic pollutants.