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A customized MOF-polymer composite for rapid gold extraction from water matrices

Daniel Teav Sun, Wendy Lee Queen, Li Peng, Olga Syzgantseva, Shuliang Yang, Jun Li

With the fast-growing accumulation of electronic waste and rising demand for rare metals, it is compelling to develop technologies that can promotionally recover targeted metals, like gold, from waste, a process referred to as urban mining. Thus, there is ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2023

3D vs. turbostratic: controlling metal-organic framework dimensionality via N-heterocyclic carbene chemistry

Mounir Driss Mensi, Emad Oveisi, Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Ilia Kochetygov, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Shuliang Yang, Anita Justin, Till Marian Schertenleib

Using azolium-based ligands for the construction of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is a viable strategy to immobilize catalytically active N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) or NHC-derived species inside MOF pores. Thus, in the present work, a novel copper MOF ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Understanding Your Support System: The Design of a Stable Metal-Organic Framework/Polyazoamine Support for Biomass Conversion

Jeremy Luterbacher, Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Olga Trukhina, Ilia Kochetygov, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Shuliang Yang

Introducing oligomeric or polymeric units into metal- organic frameworks (MOFs) can result in composites that have significantly improved properties when compared with the individual MOF or polymer building blocks. With such synergy in mind, this work pres ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

A metal-organic framework/polymer derived catalyst containing single-atom nickel species for electrocatalysis

Emad Oveisi, Mehrdad Asgari, Daniel Teav Sun, Wendy Lee Queen, Li Peng, Olga Trukhina, Wen Luo, Ilia Kochetygov, Shuliang Yang, Jie Zhang, Dragos-Constantin Stoian

While metal-organic frameworks (MOF) alone offer a wide range of structural tunability, the formation of composites, through the introduction of other non-native species, like polymers, can further broaden their structure/property spectrum. Here we demonst ...

2020

Enhancing MOF performance through the introduction of polymer guests

Mehrdad Asgari, Daniel Teav Sun, Wendy Lee Queen, Li Peng, Olga Trukhina, Ilia Kochetygov, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Shuliang Yang, Anita Justin, Jordi Espin Marti

In this contribution, recent advances in the construction of MOF-polymer composites and their corresponding applications are briefly reviewed. The appearance of such architectures is becoming prominent in recent literature, due to the fact that the union o ...

2020

Efficient reductive amination of HMF with well dispersed Pd nanoparticles immobilized in a porous MOF/polymer composite

Jeremy Luterbacher, Emad Oveisi, Daniel Teav Sun, Wendy Lee Queen, Olga Trukhina, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Shuliang Yang

Aminated derivatives of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and furfural are critical intermediates for the pharmaceutical industry. The state-of-the-art catalysts currently used for these syntheses are mostly homogeneous in nature, motivating the design of recy ...

2020

Preparation of Highly Porous Metal-Organic Framework Beads for Metal Extraction from Liquid Streams

Emad Oveisi, Daniel Teav Sun, Wendy Lee Queen, Li Peng, Olga Syzgantseva, Olga Trukhina, Ilia Kochetygov, Shuliang Yang, Anita Justin, Hassan Abedini, Guanchu Lu

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) offer great promise in a variety of gas- and liquid-phase separations. However, the excellent performance on the lab scale hardly translates into pilot- or industrial-scale applications due to the microcrystalline nature of ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Preserving Porosity of Mesoporous Metal-Organic Frameworks through the Introduction of Polymer Guests

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Emad Oveisi, Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Berend Smit, Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Aron Joel Huckaba, Li Peng, Sudabeh Jawahery, Shuliang Yang

High internal surface areas, an asset that is highly sought after in material design, has brought metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to the forefront of materials research. In fact, a major focus in the field is on creating innovative ways to maximize MOF sur ...

2019

A new post-synthetic polymerization strategy makes metal-organic frameworks more stable

Safak Bulut, Emad Oveisi, Mehrdad Asgari, Daniel Teav Sun, Wendy Lee Queen, Li Peng, Olga Trukhina, Shuliang Yang, Abbas Jamali

Metal-organic frameworks are of interest in a number of host-guest applications. However, their weak coordination bonding often leads to instability in aqueous environments, particularly at extreme pH, and hence, is a challenging topic in the field. In thi ...

2019

Method for synthesis of a metal organic framework composite

Daniel Teav Sun, Wendy Lee Queen, Li Peng, Shuliang Yang

The present invention relates to a method for synthesis of a metal organic framework composite comprising the folowing steps: a) Synthesize a metal organic framework; b) Make a polymer grow on said metal organic framework, said polymer being chosen among p ...

2019

An In-Situ Neutron Diffraction and DFT Study of Hydrogen Adsorption in a Sodalite-Type Metal-Organic Framework, Cu-BTTri

Safak Bulut, Michele Ceriotti, Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Olga Trukhina, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Ilia Kochetygov, Shuliang Yang, Rocio Semino Barbaresi

Herein we present a detailed study of the hydrogen adsorption properties of Cu‐BTTri, a robust crystalline metal–organic framework containing open metal‐coordination sites. Diffraction techniques, carried out on the activated framework, reveal a structure ...

2019

Metal-Organic-Framework-Derived Co3S4 Hollow Nanoboxes for the Selective Reduction of Nitroarenes

Safak Bulut, Emad Oveisi, Daniel Teav Sun, Wendy Lee Queen, Li Peng, Shuliang Yang

MOF-derived Co3S4/CN hollow nanoboxes (CN=nitrogen-doped carbon) was used to catalyze the chemoselective reduction of nitroarenes to anilines under mild reaction conditions with H-2 as the reducing agent. The catalyst provides high conversion efficiencies ...

2018

Controllable Synthesis of Multiheteroatoms Co-Doped Hierarchical Porous Carbon Spheres as an Ideal Catalysis Platform

Wendy Lee Queen, Li Peng, Shuliang Yang, Yanan Zhu

2018

MOF-Derived Cobalt Phosphide/Carbon Nanocubes for Selective Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes to Anilines

Safak Bulut, Emad Oveisi, Mehrdad Asgari, Daniel Teav Sun, Wendy Lee Queen, Li Peng, Olga Trukhina, Shuliang Yang

Transition-metal phosphides have received tremendous attention during the past few years because they are earth-abundant, cost-effective, and show outstanding catalytic performance in several electrochemically driven conversions including hydrogen evolutio ...

2018

MOF/polymer composite synthesized using a double solvent method offers enhanced water and CO2 adsorption properties

Mehrdad Asgari, Daniel Teav Sun, Wendy Lee Queen, Li Peng, Shuliang Yang

A double solvent method is for the first time used to synthesize a polymer composite that is constructed by a Ni-pyrazolate MOF and polydopamine (PDA). The resulting composite shows significantly enhanced water and CO2 adsorption properties compared to the ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2018

Rapid, Selective Extraction of Trace Amounts of Gold from Complex Water Mixtures with a Metal-Organic Framework (MOF)/Polymer Composite

Emad Oveisi, Natalia Gasilova, Daniel Teav Sun, Wendy Lee Queen, Shuliang Yang

With the ever-increasing production of electronics, there is an ensuing need for gold extraction from sources other than virgin mines. Currently, there are no technologies reported to date that can effectively and selectively concentrate ultratrace amounts ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

Recent Advances of MOFs and MOF‐Derived Materials in Thermally Driven Organic Transformations

Safak Bulut, Wendy Lee Queen, Li Peng, Shuliang Yang

Owing to the almost boundless structural tunability, MOF and MOF‐derived catalysts have recently exhibited structures of higher complexity, and hence, have demonstrated activity in a wide array of organic transformations. These reactions have a broad range ...

2018

Hierarchical flowerlike magnesium oxide hollow spheres with extremely high surface area for adsorption and catalysis

Fang Wei, Li Peng, Shuliang Yang, Yanan Zhu

Three-dimensionally hierarchical flowerlike MgO hollow spheres with an extremely high surface area of 343 m(2) g(-1) were prepared through a facile and environmentally friendly solvothermal route. The maximum adsorption capacity at natural pH reached 569.7 ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Preparation of Magnetic Tubular Nanoreactors for Highly Efficient Catalysis

Fang Wei, Li Peng, Shuliang Yang, Jian Liu, Chang Liu

We report an efficient and controllable route to prepare magnetic tubular nanoreactors composed of a mesoporous SiO2 shell with iron-noble metal nanoparticles inside. The key of this method is to design and fabricate Fe nanoparticles encapsulated in a meso ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2016

A Pd-Cu2O nanocomposite as an effective synergistic catalyst for selective semi-hydrogenation of the terminal alkynes only

Li Peng, Shuliang Yang

A new type lead-free catalyst of a Pd-Cu2O nanocomposite was developed for highly selective semi-hydrogenation of alkynes. With unprecedented selectivity for the semi-hydrogenation of terminal alkynes to alkenes, we show for the first time that the catalys ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016