“…The higher demand for effective sorbents with less environmental impact led to the development of many porous structures with high surface area to mass ratio (Lin et al, 2012;Wu et al, 2012;Lei et al, 2013;Khosravi and Azizian, 2015;Bu et al, 2019;Shin et al, 2019;Shahmirzaee, M., et al Advances in Geo-Energy Research 2019, 3(3): 320-342 Wang et al, 2019;Xu et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2019b). Porous metal organic frameworks (MOFs) nanomaterials by virtue of their hierarchical porous structures, superhydrophobicity, rich functionalities, low cost, and suitability for large scale application have attracted attention in oil spill cleanup (Jayaramulu et al, 2017;Yoon et al, 2017;Gao et al, 2019;Kumar et al, 2019;Xu et al, 2019aXu et al, , 2019b. Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) are a group of MOFs.…”