Adsorption-assisted photocatalytic degradation of methyl orange dye by zeolite-imidazole-framework-derived nanoparticles

Zeolite-Imidazolate-Framework-8 (ZIF8) is a typical porous material obtained by strong coordination of Zn2+ ions with imidazole organic linkers. By judicious choice of constituents, ZIF8 can reveal a huge surface area, chemical stability, and well defined pore volume. In this work, well-synthesized ZIF8 exhibited the high adsorption capacity for methyl orange (MO) (19.4 mg of MO/g of ZIF8) via electrostatic, hydrogen bonding, and π-π...