The water environment is mostly polluted by expanded
industrial
advancements and growth, which directly liberates various toxic pollutants
into the water streams. These emerging pollutants cause several hazardous
health issues to humans, animals, and the ecosystem. Conventional
treatment methodology faces different issues in the recognition and
removal of toxins, such as expense, facile operation conditions, and
the prerequisite of high maintenance. To overcome this issue, adsorption
is viewed as one of the most encouraging innovations for the removal
of pollutants. Recently, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been
considered to be efficiently adsorbent, because of their porosity,
high surface area, fine-tunable metal clusters, and easy functional
surface engineering properties. This Review concerns the recent examinations
on MOFs as proficient material in the removal of toxic contaminants
from wastewater. The adsorption mechanism of toxic pollutants removal
using MOFs-based materials was critically reviewed and discussed.
At last, challenges and the viewpoint for future advancement of MOFs
is summarized.
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