title: A visible light-driven photocatalyst of a stable metal-organic framework based on Cu4Cl clusters and TIPE spacers.
abstract: A 3D new metal-organic framework (MOF) [Cu4Cl(TIPE)3]·3Cl (1) has been synthesized and characterized. Compound 1 exhibits good chemical stability in aqueous solution with the pH ranging from 1 to 11. Interestingly, compound 1 shows high catalytic activities for the degradation of dyes (RhB, MB and MO) under LED and natural light irradiation. The Ea of 1 for RhB, MB and MO degradation is obtained to be 79.71, 66.14 and 87.26 kJ mol(-1), respectively. Furthermore, compound 1 can be reused in the catalytic process without the catalytic activity obviously decreasing.
authors.affiliation: College of Chemical Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, Shandong 255049, P. R. China. zyzhou@sdut.edu.cn wanghn913@sdut.edu.cn.
authors.forename: He
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Ping-Xiao
authors.initials: PX
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Ning
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Xing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.forename: Hai-Ning
authors.initials: HN
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zi-Yan
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Zhou