{"title":"Development of bifunctional coal graphene–COF hybrids for acidic gas probe and catalytic conversion","authors":"Patima Nizamidin, Reziwanguli abulimiti","doi":"10.1016/j.carbon.2025.120916","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Exploring a candidate with integrated capabilities of gas sensing– adsorption– conversion was great potential to minimize air pollution and global warming. In this study, a novel coal graphene–covalent organic framework (CG-H<sub>4</sub>bptc-COF) with the bifunctionality of gas sensing and catalytic conversion was developed. The CG-H<sub>4</sub>bptc-COF was synthesised using coal graphene (CG) as a carrier through a solvothermal reaction between 3,3,5,5-biphenyl tetracarboxylic acid (H<sub>4</sub>bptc) and 2,4,6-tris (4-aminophenyl)-1,3,5-triazine (TAPT). The obtained CG-H<sub>4</sub>bptc-COF show fluorescence characteristics in organic solvents owing to large conjugated π-bonds formed between the H<sub>4</sub>bptc and TAPT building blocks cooperation. In an ethanol/dichloromethane mixed solvent, CG-H<sub>4</sub>bptc-COF exhibited an extinguishable fluorescence response upon NO<sub>2</sub> (enhanced), H<sub>2</sub>S (quenched), and SO<sub>2</sub> (unchanged) injection owing to variations in intramolecular hydrogen bonds and the protonation of the triazine rings. Within the detection ranges from 100 ppb to 100 ppm and from 1 ppb to 100 ppm, CG-H<sub>4</sub>bptc-COF exhibited enhanced and quenched fluorescence emission for NO<sub>2</sub> and H<sub>2</sub>S, respectively, with RSD<sub>NO2</sub>=RSD<sub>H2S</sub> = 1.70 %–3.40 %, LOD<sub>NO2</sub> = 4.47 ppm and LOD<sub>H2S</sub> = 2.82 ppm. In a static gas adsorption process, higher amounts of NO<sub>2</sub> and H<sub>2</sub>S were adsorbed. Moreover, in a benzene/phenol mixed solvent, CG-H<sub>4</sub>bptc-COF catalysed the NO<sub>2</sub> into nitro compounds (70 % yield), despite its mass loss during the catalytic conversion process. Therefore, bifunctional CG-H<sub>4</sub>bptc-COF operates both a gas sensor and catalyst for optical sensing and air purification.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":262,"journal":{"name":"Carbon","volume":"246 ","pages":"Article 120916"},"PeriodicalIF":11.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Carbon","FirstCategoryId":"88","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0008622325009327","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Exploring a candidate with integrated capabilities of gas sensing– adsorption– conversion was great potential to minimize air pollution and global warming. In this study, a novel coal graphene–covalent organic framework (CG-H4bptc-COF) with the bifunctionality of gas sensing and catalytic conversion was developed. The CG-H4bptc-COF was synthesised using coal graphene (CG) as a carrier through a solvothermal reaction between 3,3,5,5-biphenyl tetracarboxylic acid (H4bptc) and 2,4,6-tris (4-aminophenyl)-1,3,5-triazine (TAPT). The obtained CG-H4bptc-COF show fluorescence characteristics in organic solvents owing to large conjugated π-bonds formed between the H4bptc and TAPT building blocks cooperation. In an ethanol/dichloromethane mixed solvent, CG-H4bptc-COF exhibited an extinguishable fluorescence response upon NO2 (enhanced), H2S (quenched), and SO2 (unchanged) injection owing to variations in intramolecular hydrogen bonds and the protonation of the triazine rings. Within the detection ranges from 100 ppb to 100 ppm and from 1 ppb to 100 ppm, CG-H4bptc-COF exhibited enhanced and quenched fluorescence emission for NO2 and H2S, respectively, with RSDNO2=RSDH2S = 1.70 %–3.40 %, LODNO2 = 4.47 ppm and LODH2S = 2.82 ppm. In a static gas adsorption process, higher amounts of NO2 and H2S were adsorbed. Moreover, in a benzene/phenol mixed solvent, CG-H4bptc-COF catalysed the NO2 into nitro compounds (70 % yield), despite its mass loss during the catalytic conversion process. Therefore, bifunctional CG-H4bptc-COF operates both a gas sensor and catalyst for optical sensing and air purification.
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The journal Carbon is an international multidisciplinary forum for communicating scientific advances in the field of carbon materials. It reports new findings related to the formation, structure, properties, behaviors, and technological applications of carbons. Carbons are a broad class of ordered or disordered solid phases composed primarily of elemental carbon, including but not limited to carbon black, carbon fibers and filaments, carbon nanotubes, diamond and diamond-like carbon, fullerenes, glassy carbon, graphite, graphene, graphene-oxide, porous carbons, pyrolytic carbon, and other sp2 and non-sp2 hybridized carbon systems. Carbon is the companion title to the open access journal Carbon Trends. Relevant application areas for carbon materials include biology and medicine, catalysis, electronic, optoelectronic, spintronic, high-frequency, and photonic devices, energy storage and conversion systems, environmental applications and water treatment, smart materials and systems, and structural and thermal applications.