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Abstract

The additive manufacturing (3D printing) of porous materials will open unprecedented opportunities to design advanced supports for extraction and separation. Here we have fabricated a reactive ZnO nanoparticle (NP)/thermoplastic composite filament for 3D printing via fused deposition modeling. The composite filament contains a 10 wt% ZnO-NPs incorporated in the thermoplastic acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). After 3D printing with the ZnO-NP/ABS filament, crystals of the zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) are grown in-situ on the 3D printed part. In-situ ZIF-8 crystallization is achieved by a mild chemical conversion mechanism at room temperature, converting the embedded ZnO nanoparticles into ZIF-8 crystals which are subsequently expressed on the surface of the 3D printed device. The resulting ZIF-8@ZnO-NP/ABS 3D printed devices were applied to the extraction of malachite green as a model water pollutant, and delivered superior performance compared with an identical device made of pure ABS, or the precursor ZnO-NP/ABS. For comparison purposes, a ZIF-8/ABS filament was fabricated with a 10 wt% load of presynthesized ZIF-8 crystals. The in-situ ZIF-8 growth approach again showed enhanced extraction performance in comparison with materials directly loaded with ZIF-8 crystals, with an increase of 48% in the extraction of malachite green. This is the first example of ZnO to ZIF-8 chemical conversion on 3D printed devices.

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Waheed, S and Rodas, M and Kaur, H and Kilah, NL and Paull, B and Maya, F
Keywords:	3D printing, zinc oxide nanoparticles, metal-organic frameworks, zeolitic imidazolate frameworks dye remova
Journal or Publication Title:	Applied Materials Today
Publisher:	Elsevier Science Bv
ISSN:	2352-9407
DOI / ID Number:	10.1016/j.apmt.2020.100930
Copyright Information:	© 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Related URLs:	Google Scholar: Kilah, NL UTAS Profile: Kilah, NL Google Scholar: Paull, B UTAS Profile: Paull, B Google Scholar: Maya, F
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