Metal-organic frameworks-derived perovskite catalysts for efficient degradation of 2, 4-dichlorophenol via peroxymonosulfate activation

Developing highly efficient and stable catalysts toward advanced oxidation technology is the key to achieve industrial peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation for pollution degradation. Perovskite-type oxide catalysts show high activity and stability for PMS activation, yet the small specific surface area of perovskite catalysts limits the increase of catalytic performance. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been widely used as the templates/precursors to prepare high specific surface area nanomaterials. In this study, two kinds of high surface area perovskites LaCoO 3 and LaMnO 3 were firstly fabricated with MOFs as templates. Benefiting from the extraordinary skeleton structure of MOFs, well-defined architecture and porous perovskite catalysts show superior catalytic performance towards PMS activation for the degradation of 2, 4-dichlorophenol (2, 4-DCP), with a 99.8% degradation of 2, 4-DCP in 25 min for LaCoO 3 catalyst. Moreover, the LaCoO 3 catalysts exhibit long-term stability with a slight loss of catalytic activity during 3 times recycled experiments. This study not only developed high activity catalysts for PMS activation, but also expanded the MOFs applications for environment and energy.