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Zinc-Adeninate Metal–Organic Framework: A Versatile Photoluminescent Sensor for Rare Earth Elements in Aqueous Systems

2019; American Chemical Society; Volume: 4; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1021/acssensors.9b01000

2379-3694

Scott Crawford, Xing Yee Gan, Peter Charles Lemaire, Jill E. Millstone, John P. Baltrus, Paul R. Ohodnicki,

Extraction and Separation Processes

Rare earth elements (REEs) are strategically important for national security and advanced technologies. Consequently, significant effort has been devoted towards increasing REE domestic production, including the extraction of REEs from coal, coal combustion byproducts, and their associated waste streams such as acid mine drainage. Analytical techniques for rapid quantification of REE content in aqueous phases can facilitate REE recovery through rapid identification of high-value waste streams. In this work, we show that BioMOF-100 can be used as a fluorescent-based sensitizer for emissive REE ion detection in water, providing rapid (<10 min) analysis times and sensitive detection (parts-per-billion detection limits) for terbium, dysprosium, samarium, europium, ytterbium, and neodymium, even in the presence of acids or secondary metals.