Recent Progress of Covalent Organic Frameworks Membranes: Design, Synthesis, and Application in Water Treatment

Overview

Journal Eco Environ Health

Date 2023 Dec 11

PMID 38074995

Authors

Xiaolu Liu

Yang Li

Zhongshan Chen

Hui Yang

Suhua Wang

Zhenwu Tang

Xiangke Wang

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Abstract

To date, significant efforts have been devoted to eliminating hazardous components to purify wastewater through the development of various nanomaterials. Covalent organic frameworks (COFs), an important branch of the porous crystalline family, possess the peculiarity of ultrahigh surface area, adjustable pore size, and facile functionality. Exciting studies from design fabrication to potential applications in water treatment by COF-based membranes (COMs) have emerged. This review summarizes various preparation strategies and synthesis mechanisms for COMs, including layer-by-layer stacking, growth, interfacial polymerization, and electrochemical synthesis, and briefly describes the advanced characterization techniques for COMs. Moreover, the application of COMs in heavy metal removal, dye separation, purification of radionuclides, pollutant detection, sea water desalination, and so on, is described and discussed. Finally, the perspectives on future opportunities for designing COMs in water purification have been proposed.

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