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20 resultsShowing papers similar to Recent Advances in Metal–Organic Framework (MOF)-Based Composites for Organic Effluent Remediation
ClearA Critical Review on Metal-Organic Frameworks and Their Composites as Advanced Materials for Adsorption and Photocatalytic Degradation of Emerging Organic Pollutants from Wastewater
This review evaluates the use of metal-organic frameworks and their composites for removing emerging organic pollutants from wastewater through adsorption and photocatalytic degradation. Researchers found that these advanced materials show high efficiency in capturing and breaking down endocrine-disrupting chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and other persistent contaminants. The study highlights the promise of metal-organic frameworks as a next-generation remediation technology for addressing water pollution.
Synthesis, characterization, and activation of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) for the removal of emerging organic contaminants through the adsorption-oriented process: A review
This review examines metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a class of advanced materials, for removing emerging contaminants from water, including microplastics, dyes, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals. MOFs have extremely high surface areas and can be chemically tuned to target specific pollutants, making them promising for next-generation water treatment. The technology could help reduce human exposure to microplastics and other harmful substances in drinking water.
Efficiency ofMOFs in Water Treatment Against the Emerging Water Contaminants Such as Endocrine Disruptors, Pharmaceuticals, Microplastics, Pesticides, and Other Contaminants
This review examines how metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can remove a broad range of emerging water contaminants — including microplastics, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine disruptors — from water. MOFs outperform conventional treatment methods because of their large surface area, tunable pore structure, and ability to work through both adsorption and photocatalysis. The paper highlights MOFs as a promising next-generation water treatment technology that could meaningfully reduce human and environmental exposure to microplastics and co-occurring pollutants.
The Application of Metal–Organic Frameworks in Water Treatment and Their Large-Scale Preparation: A Review
This review examines metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), highly porous materials being developed for water treatment that can remove pollutants including microplastics through filtration and catalytic breakdown. MOFs have exceptional surface area and can be tailored to target specific contaminants, making them promising for advanced water purification. The challenge remains scaling up MOF production for real-world water treatment use, which could help reduce human exposure to microplastics in drinking water.
A review on metal organic frameworks (MOFs) modified membrane for remediation of water pollution
This review covers how metal-organic framework (MOF) materials can be incorporated into membranes to improve filtration of pollutants from contaminated water. The technology shows promise for removing microplastics and chemical contaminants, though most applications remain at laboratory scale.
Metal Organic Framework Based Membranes for Efficient Wastewater Purification: Syntheses and Applications: A Review
This review synthesizes research on metal-organic framework (MOF) based membranes for wastewater treatment, examining the synthesis methods, tunable pore geometries, and applications of MOF membranes in removing contaminants including heavy metals, dyes, and pharmaceuticals from water.
Recent Developments in Metal‐Organic Frameworks for Water Purification: A Mini Review
This mini-review examines recent advances in using metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for water purification, covering applications targeting heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, microplastics, dyes, and radionuclides. The authors highlight the versatile adsorption and degradation properties of MOFs and identify current limitations including stability and scalability that need to be addressed for practical water treatment deployment.
MIL Series in MOFs for the Removal of Emerging Contaminants: Application and Mechanisms
This review examined MIL-series metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as adsorbents for removing emerging contaminants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and heavy metals from water. MIL-MOFs showed high surface area and tunable chemistry that enable effective contaminant capture, and the review assessed their stability and scalability for practical water treatment applications.
Preparation and Modification of New Functional Materials for Organic Pollutant Elimination
This review examines the design and modification of advanced functional materials for eliminating organic pollutants from water, covering biomass-derived polymers, metal-organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, and other biocompatible materials developed to address emerging contaminants including PFAS, pharmaceuticals, and microplastics.
Metal–organic framework applications for microplastic remediation: exploring pathways and future potential
This review examines how metal-organic frameworks (specialized porous materials) can be used to capture and remove microplastics from water. Microplastics are emerging contaminants that threaten aquatic ecosystems and human health. The paper explores different remediation pathways and the future potential of these advanced materials for cleaning up microplastic pollution.
Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) for Adsorption and Degradation of Microplastics
This review examines metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a class of porous materials, as a promising technology for capturing and breaking down microplastics in water. MOFs offer advantages over traditional filtration because they can be designed to target specific plastic types and sizes. While still mostly tested in laboratories, MOF-based approaches could help close the gap in water treatment where conventional methods fail to remove the smallest and most harmful microplastic particles.
Green agriculture enabled by versatile metal-organic frameworks: A review
This review examines how metal-organic frameworks can be applied to address agricultural challenges including pollutant removal, water capture, and nutrient management. Researchers evaluated MOFs for removing contaminants such as pesticides, heavy metals, microplastics, and antibiotics from agricultural systems. The study highlights MOFs as versatile materials for green agriculture while noting remaining challenges in scaling up production and ensuring environmental safety of the frameworks themselves.
Microplastics removal from aqueous environment by metal organic frameworks
This review examines how metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a class of advanced porous materials, can remove 70-99.9% of microplastics from water in laboratory settings. MOFs can be customized with specific pore sizes and chemical properties to target different types of microplastics. While challenges remain with cost and scaling up, this technology shows promise for developing more effective water treatment systems to reduce human exposure to microplastics in drinking water.
Unlocking the Potential of MOFs for Waste Plastic Resource Utilization and Microplastic Pollution Control
This review examines the potential of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — a class of highly porous, engineered materials — to serve as catalysts for both breaking down microplastic pollution and converting waste plastic into valuable chemical feedstocks. MOFs offer tunable structures and large surface areas that make them attractive for both degradation and upcycling applications. The review positions MOF-enabled catalysis as a tool for transitioning toward a circular plastics economy where waste plastic becomes a resource rather than a pollutant.
Metal-organic frameworks and plastic: an emerging synergic partnership
This review examines how metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a class of crystalline nanoporous materials, can be used to address plastic pollution in water. Researchers found that MOFs show promise as adsorbents for removing micro- and nanoplastic particles, especially when integrated into composite materials or membranes, achieving high removal efficiency and water flow rates. The study also highlights an emerging trend of producing MOFs from plastic waste like PET as a sustainable source of raw materials.
Application of metal-organic frameworks for photocatalytic degradation of microplastics: Design, challenges, and scope
This review examines how metal-organic frameworks can be designed and applied for photocatalytic degradation of microplastics in wastewater, addressing the challenge of microplastic hydrophobicity and their resistance to conventional treatment. The authors discuss design strategies, current performance limitations, and future directions for scaling photocatalytic MOF technology to practical remediation applications.
Current Trend of MOFs Incorporated Membranes for Advanced Wastewater Treatment
This review covers the use of metal-organic framework (MOF) nanoparticles incorporated into membrane filters to improve wastewater treatment performance, including better rejection of persistent pollutants. Advanced membrane technologies incorporating nanomaterials also show potential for removing microplastics from water, making this treatment research broadly relevant.
Function-led design of porous organic materials for water treatment
This review covers porous organic polymers (POPs) as advanced adsorbent materials for removing pollutants from water, including dyes, heavy metals, and microplastics. Their tunable pore structure and high surface area make them promising candidates for next-generation water treatment technologies.
Advances in metal-organic frameworks for microplastic removal from aquatic environments: Mechanisms and performance insights
Researchers reviewed over 65 studies on using metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — highly porous, sponge-like materials — to remove microplastics from water, finding some MOFs achieved up to 98% removal efficiency and could be reused six times, making them a promising filtration technology for microplastic pollution.
Photocatalytic Degradation of Emerging Pollutants Using Covalent Organic Frameworks
This review covers how covalent organic frameworks, a class of porous crystalline materials, can be used as photocatalysts to break down emerging contaminants including microplastics and pharmaceuticals. Researchers highlighted the tunable structure and high surface area of these materials as key advantages for environmental cleanup applications. The technology represents a promising sustainable approach to degrading persistent pollutants using light-driven chemistry.