Development of Efficient Metal Organic Frameworks Composites for Environment Remediation and Production of Green Energy

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The industrial revolution has greatly advanced public health, food supply, and nutrition, yet it has also spurred rapid population growth, increasing the demand for water and energy resources. This, coupled with the swift depletion of fossil fuels and rising environmental pollution, has highlighted an unprecedented crisis for humanity. Climate change is another factor that may significantly impact global water availability. As the world's population and economic activities continue to expand, the demand for water intensifies. To tackle these challenges, substantial efforts have been directed toward developing alternative clean energy technologies and water remediation methods. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are materials composed of metal ions connected by organic linkers to form extended structures. They have garnered significant interest due to their unique properties, including high surface area and pore volume, low density, numerous adsorption sites, and versatile structures with tailored functionalities, enabling a wide range of applications. Our focus is particularly on water harvesting and remediation, photocatalysts for hydrogen (H2) production via water photolysis, optical and electrochemical sensing of environmental contaminants, and CO2 capture and separation. This research aims to explore the use of newly synthesized functionalized porous metal-organic frameworks (PMOFs) for sensing, recovering, and eliminating toxic metal ions from wastewater. Additionally, we will investigate dye removal from wastewater using adsorption and/or photocatalytic degradation techniques, which can also be applied to other organic water pollutants. Further objectives include the photocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) under visible light, developing voltammetric sensors for detecting environmental contaminants, and selectively adsorbing gas molecules like carbon dioxide.

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