Abstract
Frequent crude oil spills and illegal discharges of industrial organic pollutants cause serious damage to the ecological environment and considerable loss of valuable resources. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop efficient strategies to separate and recover oils or reagents from sewage. Herein, a green, facile and rapid one-step hydration method was applied to obtain the composite sponge (ZIF-8-PDA@MS) that monodispersed zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 nanoparticles with high porosity and large specific surface area were firmly loaded onto the melamine sponge by ligand exchange and the self-assembly of dopamine. The water contact angle of ZIF-8-PDA@MS with multiscale hierarchical porous structure could reach 162°, which remained stable over a long period of time and a wide pH range. ZIF-8-PDA@MS displayed excellent adsorption capacities (up to 85.45–168.95 g⋅g−1), and could be reused at least 40 times. Besides, ZIF-8-PDA@MS exhibited remarkable photothermal effect. Simultaneously, Silver nanoparticle-immobilized composite sponges were also prepared via in-situ reduction of silver ions to inhibit bacterial contamination. The composite sponge developed in this work can be used not only for the treatment of industrial sewage, but also for the emergency response of large-scale marine oil spill accidents, which has inestimable practical value for water decontamination.
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