Issue 23, 2023

A review of metal–organic framework (MOF) materials as an effective photocatalyst for degradation of organic pollutants

Abstract

Water plays a vital role in all aspects of life. Recently, water pollution has increased exponentially due to various organic and inorganic pollutants. Organic pollutants are hard to degrade; therefore, cost-effective and sustainable approaches are needed to degrade these pollutants. Organic dyes are the major source of organic pollutants from coloring industries. The photoactive metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) offer an ultimate strategy for constructing photocatalysts to degrade pollutants present in wastewater. Therefore, tuning the metal ions/clusters and organic ligands for the better photocatalytic activity of MOFs is a tremendous approach for wastewater treatment. This review comprehensively reports various MOFs and their composites, especially POM-based MOF composites, for the enhanced photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants in the aqueous phase. A brief discussion on various theoretical aspects such as density functional theory (DFT) and machine learning (ML) related to MOF and MOF composite-based photocatalysts has been presented. Thus, this article may eventually pave the way for applying different structural features to modulate novel porous materials for enhanced photodegradation properties toward organic pollutants.

Graphical abstract: A review of metal–organic framework (MOF) materials as an effective photocatalyst for degradation of organic pollutants

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
10 8 2023
Accepted
30 9 2023
First published
09 10 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Nanoscale Adv., 2023,5, 6318-6348

A review of metal–organic framework (MOF) materials as an effective photocatalyst for degradation of organic pollutants

M. S. Khan, Y. Li, D. Li, J. Qiu, X. Xu and H. Y. Yang, Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 6318 DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00627A

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