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Review
. 2020 Dec;27(36):44771-44796.
doi: 10.1007/s11356-020-10738-8. Epub 2020 Sep 25.

A critical review on recent developments in MOF adsorbents for the elimination of toxic heavy metals from aqueous solutions

Lata Rani  1   2 , Jyotsna Kaushal  3 , Arun Lal Srivastav  4 , Pooja Mahajan  1
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Review

A critical review on recent developments in MOF adsorbents for the elimination of toxic heavy metals from aqueous solutions

Lata Rani et al. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2020 Dec.

Abstract

Effective and substantial remediation of contaminants especially heavy metals from water is still a big challenge in terms of both environmental and biological perspectives because of their adverse effects on the human health. Many techniques including adsorption, ion exchange, co-precipitation, chemical reduction, ultrafiltration, etc. are reported for eliminating heavy metal ions from the water. However, adsorption has preferred because of its simple and easy handlings. Several types of adsorbents are observed and documented well for the purpose. Recently, highly porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) were developed by incorporating metals and organic ligands together and claimed as potent adsorbents for the remediation of highly toxic heavy metals from the aqueous solutions due to their unique features like greater surface area, high chemical stability, green and reuse material, etc. In this review, the authors discussed systematically some recent developments about secure MOFs to eliminate the toxic metals such as arsenic (both arsenite and arsenate), chromium(VI), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg) and lead (Pb). MOFs are observed as the most efficient adsorbents with greater selectivity as well as high adsorption capacity for metallic contamination. Graphical abstract.

Keywords: Adsorption; Heavy metals; Ligands; MOFs; Water contaminants.

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