The Best of Both Worlds: An MOP/COF-Based Hybrid Materialfor Highly Selective and Very Fast Sequestration of Toxic Oxoanionsfrom Water

摘要

The rise ofindustrializationover the past century has escalated water pollution and related problemsglobally. Unsafe drinking water not only jeopardizes human health,in most severe cases leading to death, but also causes serious environmentalcontamination, thus posing a dangerous ecological threat. Most toxicwater-polluting agents mobilize in aquatic environments such as lakes,rivers, oceans, groundwater, etc., which makes it difficult to separatethem by a common energy-efficient technology. In this issue of ACS Central Science, Ghosh and co-workers explore a novelfunctional hybrid porous material composed of a metal–organicpolyhedra (MOP) and a covalent organic framework (COF), which, bythe virtue of its unique design and adsorption ability, effectivelyand selectively captures toxic oxoanions from water. Their work presentsa new avenue for water purification and amelioration.1