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MOF-derived double-shelled Fe(OH)3@NiCo-LDH hollow cubes and their efficient adsorption for anionic organic pollutant

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Combination of multiple components with hollow architectures and complex multi-shelled structures may result in synergistically enhancing the performance and application of composite materials. Herein, we have demonstrated a metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) derived approach toward the large-scale and facile synthesis of hierarchical double-shelled Fe(OH)3@NiCo-layered double hydroxides (NiCo-LDH) hollow cubes with the inner Fe(OH)3 and outer NiCo-LDH layers. The synthetic procedures involved the oriented deposition of NiCo-LDH shell on the surface of Prussian blue (PB) cubes in the refluxing process and a subsequent chemical etching of PB template with NaOH solution at room temperature. The obtained samples have been systematically characterized by SEM, TEM, FT-IR, XRD, XPS and N2 adsorption–desorption analysis. Benefiting from the structural merits including high specific surface area, abundant diffusion passage and unique hierarchical hollow structures, the derived double-shelled Fe(OH)3@NiCo-LDH hollow cubes exhibited significant adsorption capacity toward Congo red and the maximum adsorption capacity can reach up to 658.52 mg/g at 25 °C. Langmuir isotherm model provided a better description for the adsorption isotherms, and pseudo-second-order kinetic model can well represent the adsorption kinetics. Moreover, the removal efficiency of Fe(OH)3@NiCo-LDH hollow cubes can still reach 73.1% for Congo red after recycling five times, indicating a good recovery efficiency. Furthermore, the possible adsorption mechanism of the Fe(OH)3/NiCo-LDH composite involved ions exchange, hydrogen bonding interaction and electrostatic attraction. Therefore, the double-shelled Fe(OH)3@NiCo-LDH hollow cubes have the potential application to absorb and remove anionic organic dye from wastewater solution in view of their facile synthesis method and excellent adsorption performance.

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This work was financially supported by Major research project of Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Coal-based Greenhouse Gas Control and Utilization (2020ZDZZ01A) and the Open Sharing Fund for the Large-scale Instruments and Equipments of CUMT (DYGX-2021-092).

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    Ling Liu, Zhi-Qiang Xia, Shang-Bo Li, Yu-Jie Zhang & Ning Wang

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    Zhi-Qiang Xia, Shang-Bo Li, Yu-Jie Zhang & Ning Wang

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Liu, L., Xia, ZQ., Li, SB. et al. MOF-derived double-shelled Fe(OH)3@NiCo-LDH hollow cubes and their efficient adsorption for anionic organic pollutant. J Porous Mater 29, 931–945 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10934-022-01220-6

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