Due to the continuous occurrence of water pollution problems, practical separation methods for oil–water mixtures have attracted more and attention. To date, different kinds materials been developed with good hydrophobic properties strong ability. Carbon aerogels, as a promising ideal adsorbent dealing oil-spill accidents, received extensive In this work, zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs),...

T he use of external stimuli to manipulate the properties of well-defined materials may find applications in ondemand drug delivery, separation of molecules, sensing, smart coatings, or artificial tissues (1). Most of these applications rely on changes in the shape, stiffness, pore size, or other properties of soft materials in response to external pressure, temperature changes, or electric or ...

Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs), a subclass of metal organic frameworks, are built of tetrahedral metal ions bridged by imidazolates. They have permanent porosity and relatively high thermal and chemical stability, which make them attractive candidates for many industrial applications. In recent years, significant progress has been made in developing ZIFs into membranes and thin films fo...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and particularly their subclass - Zeolite Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs) - are used for a variety of applications including particularly energy storage. Highly porous MOFs mixed with non-wetting liquids can be used to form molecular springs (MS) for efficient mechanical and thermal energy storage/transformation. In this paper by means of high-pressure calorimetry ...

In this study, molecular dynamics simulation is used to investigate the effects of water-based substitutional defects in zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIF)-8 membranes on their reverse osmosis (RO) desalination performance. ZIF-8 unit cells containing up three defect sites are construct membranes. These can either be Zn or linker defects. The RO performance assessed terms water flux and ion ...

Zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF) hybrid fluorescent nanoparticles and ZIF antibody conjugates have been synthesized, characterized, employed in lateral-flow immunoassay (LFIA). The bright fluorescence of the possibility to tailor their mobility gives a huge potential for diagnostic assays. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) as label, proved integr...