In this study, the metal-organic framework ZIF-8 has been successfully planted on the surface of chitosan microspheres (CS/PDA@ZIF-8) using polydopamine as connecting material for the first time, which avoids the… Click to show full abstract
In this study, the metal-organic framework ZIF-8 has been successfully planted on the surface of chitosan microspheres (CS/PDA@ZIF-8) using polydopamine as connecting material for the first time, which avoids the use of expensive, non-renewable, and non-biodegradable polystyrene microspheres commonly used as templates to prepare core-shell structures. Moreover, the metal-organic framework ZIF-8 was prepared specially by three different methods and all characterized by SEM, TEM, and BET, and the ZIF-8 shell prepared at room temperature presents a regular morphology, uniform size, large specific surface area (353.1 m2/g) than the shells prepared by the other methods including. The CS/PDA@ZIF-825@Pd with high catalytic activity and high stability was especially prepared by encapsulating Pd nanoparticles into the pores of CS/PDA@ZIF-825. Notably, the fabricated catalyst performed well in an array of reactions, for example the Kapp value of the p-nitrophenol reduction reaction reached 0.0426 s-1, and the TOF of the Suzuki coupling reaction reached 128 h-1. In addition, the ZIF-67, UiO-66, UiO-66-NH2, HKUST-1, and NH2-MIL-53(Al) were also grown on chitosan microcapsules successively to prepare the core-shell microspheres, which prove the universal applicability of this strategy. And beyond that, the introduction of chitosan microspheres endows the material with biodegradable properties and excellent recycling properties.
               
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