Alkyl-Linked Porphyrin Porous Polymers for Gas Capture and Precious Metal Adsorption
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Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Center (AMPM) Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering (PSE) King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) 5640 South Ellis Avenue Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi ArabiaPhysical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2021-05-05Online Publication Date
2021-05-05Print Publication Date
2021-06Submitted Date
2020-12-28Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/669133
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In gas adsorption and metal recovery, inexpensive and covalently bonded porous polymers offer industrial feasibility, despite the challenge of having reactive functionalities while maintaining porosity. Herein, three highly porous covalent organic polymers (COPs), COP-210, COP-211, and COP-212, with porphyrin functionalities that are readily synthesized by a Friedel–Crafts reaction using chlorinated solvents as linkers are reported. The polymers exhibit competitive adsorption capacities for CO2, H2, and CH4. Their porphyrin sites proved particularly effective in precious metal recovery, where COPs exhibit high selectivity toward gold, platinum, palladium, and silver. Analysis reveals that reductive metal capture is prevalent for gold and silver. Platinum is also captured through a combination of reduction and chelation. The gold adsorption capacities are 0.901–1.250 g g−1 with fast adsorption kinetics at low pH. COP-212 selectively recovers 95.6% of gold from actual electronic waste (e-waste) collected from junkyards. The results show that the inexpensive and scalable porous porphyrin polymers offer great potential in gas capture, separation, and precious metal recovery.Citation
Hong, Y., Rozyyev, V., & Yavuz, C. T. (2021). Alkyl-Linked Porphyrin Porous Polymers for Gas Capture and Precious Metal Adsorption. Small Science, 2000078. doi:10.1002/smsc.202000078Sponsors
Y.H. and V.R. contributed equally. This research was supported by Nano-Material Technology Development Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (NRF-2017M3A7B4042140 and NRF-2017M3A7B4042235). C.T.Y. also acknowledges startup funds from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).Publisher
WileyJournal
Small ScienceAdditional Links
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smsc.202000078ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1002/smsc.202000078
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