Zarfashan Shahid,Bairong Fu,Saima Rehman,Zia Ahmad,Jiping Chen,Xianbo Lu
Bisphenol compounds, including BPA and BPS, are significant pollutants found in the environment, food, and daily necessities. They pose various adverse effects, including estrogenic, immunotoxic, metabolic, and reproductive toxicity, which severely threaten human health and ecological safety. Achieving simultaneous rapid detection of BPA and BPS is still very challenging due to their similar structures and co-existence in actual samples at ultratrace level. This study addresses the problem of developing an effective method for the rapid detection of BPA and BPS simultaneously. A new electrochemical nanosensor based on ionic liquid (IL) coupled Zr-MOF@GO was developed for ultrasensitive real-time detection of BPA and BPS. The Zr-MOF@GO/IL nanocomposite features a custom-built structure with an ordered framework, abundant pores, and highly coupled interfaces. The experimental findings demonstrate that the introduction of IL enhances the conductivity and dispersibility of the nanocomposite, improves the absorption capability for target bisphenols, and significantly improves the detection limit and linear range of the Zr-MOF@GO based electrochemical sensor. The sensor demonstrated wide linear ranges with detection limits of 5.5 nmol/L for BPA and 7.1 nmol/L for BPS (S/N = 3), respectively. Comparative studies revealed that the detection limits of the Zr-MOF@GO/IL-based sensor improved by an order of magnitude compared to the Zr-MOF@GO-based sensor. Additionally, the sensor exhibited superior analytical performance regarding reproducibility, stability, and selectivity. This study investigated the capability and synergy of IL coupled high-valent stable transition metal Zr IV -based MOFs in electrochemical sensing for the first time. This development sets a new benchmark in non-enzymatic electrochemical sensing, establishing the Zr-MOF@GO/IL-based sensor as a promising platform for the individual or simultaneous rapid detection of bisphenols in actual samples.
Ou Qianhui,Xiong Yan,Chen Li,He Deyong,Zhou Chuxiang,Wang Lan
The nanocomposite materials are highly promising candidates for adsorption applications in dyed wastewater due to their distinctive structural properties. In this work, the nanocomposite hybrids of UiO-66@GO were first synthesized by specifically anchoring Zr-based metal organic framework (MOF) of UiO-66 onto graphene oxide (GO) nanolayer through solvothermal method. Then the composite matrix microspheres (CMMs) of UiO-66@GO were subsequently prepared by embedding the obtained UiO-66@GO nanocomposite into sodium alginate (SA) microspheres through self-assembly cross-linking process. Finally, the prepared UiO-66@GO CMMs were applied for the adsorption of organic dye pollutant and showed efficient water purification performance. As a result, the UiO-66@GO CMMs exhibited selective cationic dye adsorption for Rhodamine B (RhB + ). The experimental results revealed that the adsorption kinetics followed by the pseudo-second-order (PSD) model with rate constant k 2 = 0.95 × 10 –3 g mg −1 min −1 , and the thermodynamics followed by the Langmuir model with adsorption capacity of 345.66 mg mg −1 . Notably, the UiO-66@GO CMMs demonstrated excellent adsorption removal of a significant removal efficiency of 98% towards 10 ppm Rh-B and a rapid adsorption response time of ~ 5 min. Meanwhile, the UiO-66@GO CMMs maintained long-term stability with adsorption efficiency > 95% over 30 days and effective reuse with resorption efficiency > 90% using DMF-H₂O as eluent. In this study, SA has served as a porous supporting matrix to immobilize UIO-66@GO nanoparticles, having mitigated issues of aggregation and leaching common to nanoscale adsorbents while improving reusability. The synergistic effect between UIO-66 and GO has further enhanced pollutant adsorption capacity, demonstrating significant potential for dye wastewater treatment applications.