A novel design of self-assembled metal-organic frameworks MIL-53(Fe) modified resin as a catalyst for catalytic degradation of tetracycline

Chloromethyl styrene-divinylbenzene (PS–Cl) resin was usually chemically modified for the adsorption of heavy metal ions in wastewater. However, this work will introduce a new application of resin for catalytic degradation of antibiotics. The core-shell PS-NH 2 @MIL-53(Fe) catalyst was fabricated by simple two-step route including chemical synthesis and step-by-step self-assembly strategy. The catalysts exhibited excellent catalytic activity toward the degradation of tetracycline (TC) in the presence of H 2 O 2 , with a degradation efficiency and degradation rate constant ( k ) of 94.15% and 0.05643 min −1 within initial 20 min, respectively. Moreover, the mineralization and stability of PS-NH 2 @MIL-53(Fe) both showed excellent performance. The advantage of PS-NH 2 @MIL-53(Fe) is that the degradation efficiency of TC could be modulated by the number of self-assembly. Additionally, we utilized the Yellow River water to explore the effect of the catalyst for TC removal in the actual wastewater treatment . Meanwhile, several possible catalytic degradation pathways were analyzed on the basis of using HPLC-MS to detect the intermediates generated in the process of catalytic degradation, and a potential catalytic degradation mechanism was proposed. In brief, the new application of amination resin modified by MIL-53(Fe) in catalytic degradation of TC shows promising prospect, especially in the field of environmental remediation.