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Metal Organic Frameworks(MOFs) have been used in various applications, including

sensors. The unique crystalline structure of MOFs in addition to controllability of

their pore size and their intake selectivity makes them a promising method of detection.

Detection of metal ions in water using a binary mixture of luminescent MOFs

has been reported. 3 MOFs(ZrPDA,

Metal Organic Frameworks(MOFs) have been used in various applications, including

sensors. The unique crystalline structure of MOFs in addition to controllability of

their pore size and their intake selectivity makes them a promising method of detection.

Detection of metal ions in water using a binary mixture of luminescent MOFs

has been reported. 3 MOFs(ZrPDA, UiO-66 and UiO-66-NH2) as detectors and 4

metal ions(Pb2+, Ni2+, Ba2+ and Cu2+) as the target species were chosen based on

cost, water stability, application and end goals.

It is possible to detect metal ions such as Pb2+ at concentrations at low as 0.005

molar using MOFs. Also, based on the luminescence responses, a method of distinguishing

between similar metal ions has been proposed. It is shown that using a

mixture of MOFs with dierent reaction to metal ions can lead to unique and specic

3D luminescence maps, which can be used to identify the present metal ions in water

and their amount.

In addition to the response of a single MOF to addition of a single metal ion,

luminescence response of ZrPDA + UiO-66 mixture to increasing concentration of

each of 4 metal ions was studied, and summarized. A new peak is observed in the

mixture, that did not exist before, and it is proposed that this peak requires metal

ions to activate
ContributorsSirous, Peyman (Author) / Mu, Bin (Thesis advisor) / Alford, Terry (Thesis advisor) / Jiao, Yang (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2018
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The large-scale anthropogenic emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere leads to many unintended consequences, from rising sea levels to ocean acidification. While a clean energy infrastructure is growing, mid-term strategies that are compatible with the current infrastructure should be developed. Carbon capture and storage in fossil-fuel power plants is

The large-scale anthropogenic emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere leads to many unintended consequences, from rising sea levels to ocean acidification. While a clean energy infrastructure is growing, mid-term strategies that are compatible with the current infrastructure should be developed. Carbon capture and storage in fossil-fuel power plants is one way to avoid our current gigaton-scale emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. However, for this to be possible, separation techniques are necessary to remove the nitrogen from air before combustion or from the flue gas after combustion. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a relatively new class of porous material that show great promise for adsorptive separation processes. Here, potential mechanisms of O2/N2 separation and CO2/N2 separation are explored.

First, a logical categorization of potential adsorptive separation mechanisms in MOFs is outlined by comparing existing data with previously studied materials. Size-selective adsorptive separation is investigated for both gas systems using molecular simulations. A correlation between size-selective equilibrium adsorptive separation capabilities and pore diameter is established in materials with complex pore distributions. A method of generating mobile extra-framework cations which drastically increase adsorptive selectivity toward nitrogen over oxygen via electrostatic interactions is explored through experiments and simulations. Finally, deposition of redox-active ferrocene molecules into systematically generated defects is shown to be an effective method of increasing selectivity towards oxygen.
ContributorsMcIntyre, Sean (Author) / Mu, Bin (Thesis advisor) / Green, Matthew (Committee member) / Lind, Marylaura (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2019