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Photo-switchable Cu+ sites in metal-organic frameworks for adsorptive desulfurization

Yu-Yang Gu§Guoliang Liu§Shi-Chao QiChen GuTao YangXiao-Qin LiuLin-Bing Sun( )
State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Material (SICAM), College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China

§ Yu-Yang Gu and Guoliang Liu contributed equally to this work.

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A photo-switchable metal-organic framework (PMOF) decorated with Cu+ active sites was fabricated for the first time. Meaningfully, the transformation of photo-switchable units into PMOFs affects the interaction between adsorbate and adsorbent through shielding/exposing active sites, thus the controllable performance of adsorptive desulfurization is realized through light irradiations.

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Photo-switchable metal-organic frameworks (PMOFs) as energy-saving adsorbents for tailorable guest capture show admirable potentials for various applications like adsorptive desulfurization. However, the regulation behavior of most reported PMOFs is based on weak physical interaction, and it is highly desired to introduce specific active sites to satisfy the demand of higher adsorption capacity and selectivity. Herein, for the first time, we prepared the PMOFs, azobenzene-functionalized HKUST-1 (HK-Azo), simultaneously decorated with Cu2O active sites that possess strong interaction with guest molecules. Due to π-complexation interaction of Cu+ with aromatic sulfur compounds, the obtained HK-Azo shows obviously higher adsorption capacity on benzothiophene compared with HKUST-1. Upon ultraviolet (UV) and visible irradiation, azobenzene moieties in the PMOFs can transform their configuration freely and reversibly. Such trans/cis isomerization of azobenzene causes exposure/shelter of Cu2O active sites, leading to controllable benzothiophene capture. The HK-Azo exhibits the change of benzothiophene uptake up to 29.7% upon trans and cis isomerization, which is obviously higher than HKUST-1 with negligible change. This work may inspire the development of new adsorption process regulated by light for adsorptive desulfurization that is impossible to realize by conventional PMOFs.

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Gu Y-Y, Liu G, Qi S-C, et al. Photo-switchable Cu+ sites in metal-organic frameworks for adsorptive desulfurization. Nano Research, 2023, 16(2): 3333-3338. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4992-0
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Received: 21 June 2022
Revised: 15 August 2022
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Published: 11 October 2022
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