Novel organic–inorganic mesoporous luminescent polymeric hybrid materials containing europium(III) complexes incorporated to mesoporous silica SBA-15/SBA-16 have been prepared by simple physical doping (impregnation) methods, followed by the addition polymerization reaction of the monomer 4-vinylpyridine (vpd) extending along the mesoporous channels. The precursor europium(III) complexes are synthesized by β-diketonate (β-diketonate=2-thenoyltrifluoroacetonate (tta), hexafluoroacetylacetonate (hfac), trifluoroacetylacetonate (taa)) and monomer 4-vinylpyridine (vpd) coordinated to Eu 3+ , and SBA-15/SBA-16 are obtained via a sol–gel process. After the physical doping and the polymerization reaction , the final ternary materials Eu(β-diketonate) 3 pvpd-SBA-15/Eu(β-diketonate) 3 pvpd-SBA-16 (β-diketonate=tta, hfac, taa) are received. The physical properties and espeically the photoluminescence of these hybrids are characterized, and the XRD and BET results reveal that all of these hybrid materials have uniformity in the mesostructure. The detailed luminescence investigation on all the materials show that Eu(tta) 3 pvpd-SBA-16 have the highest luminescence intensity and the materials with taa ligands have longer lifetimes.
ABSTRACT The removal of boron from aqueous solution and the enrichment of boron from salt lake have attracted more attention. In this work, organo-inorganic hybrid mesoporous boron adsorbents were synthesized by tris(hydroxymethyl)methyl aminomethane (TRIS) grafted onto the meso-porous SBA-15, SBA-16 and MCM-41, respectively. And the structures are characterized by infrared, scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray, mapping, X-ray diffraction, point of zero charge, and Marvin laser particle size analyzer. The results showed that TRIS was successfully grafted onto SBA-15, SBA-16, and MCM-41. The adsorption isotherm and adsorption kinetics were best fitted with Langmuir model and pseudo-second-order rate equation, respectively. The adsorption capacity of the three adsorbents was 15.28, 15.70 and 14.17 mg/g, respectively. And the same functional group has little influence on the boron adsorption capacity of different carrier adsorbents of the same type (organosilicon material). These adsorbents have highly selective adsorption of boron, and maintain good lifetime after adsorption–desorption for 5 times, and the dissolution loss rate of SBA-16-TRIS after ten cycles was 0.93%.