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MOF-based materials as soil amendments
Date Issued
01-01-2022
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Abstract
Enhanced industrial activity and urbanization lead to the release of diverse contaminants into various environmental matrices such as soil. Conversely, these toxic compounds entering the food chain and results in inevitable consequences to humans and the environment. Thus, abatement of these contaminants from the soil is an important task. In this context, crystalline inorganic-organic porous hybrid adsorbent material, namely metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is found to offer many advantages such as self-tuned structural properties based on target (e.g., prerequisite selection of metal ion and organic linker), super magnetism, controlled uptake of pollutant, and so on. In this chapter, advances in the MOF technology to extract, adsorb, and sense heavy metals, polyaromatic hydrocarbon, polyhalogenated biphenyl, endocrine disruptors, and pesticides have been discussed in terms of mechanism and operational parameters. An attempt was also made to bring out the challenges involved in the application of MOF-based technology for the abatement of soil pollution in the field.