THE SYNTHESIS OF SPHERICAL SHAPE AMINO FUNCTIONALIZED PEI-TGIC COVALENT ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS: SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND METHYL ORANGE ABSORPTION

Abstract

In here, the synthesis of covalent organic framework (COF) from the reaction of polyethyleneimine (PEI) and triglycidyl isocyanurate (TGIC) in dimethylformamide at 90 ^oC were carried out. The surface are, pore volume and pore size values of PEI-TGIC COFs observed as 23.4 m²/g, 0.143 cm³/g, and 22.5 nm, respectively. Moreover, the surface charge of PEI-TGIC COFs increased to +46.1±2.6 mV from +18.3±1.7 mV, after protonation of amine groups of PEI-TGIC COFs. Moreover, the potential usage of PEI-TGIC based COFs in absorption methyl orange (MO) dye from aqueous media was testing. It was observed that, the PEI-TGIC COF absorbed 156.6±4.9 mg/g MO, and the protonated PEI-TGIC (p-PEI-TGIC) COFs absorbed 202.4±5.3 mg/g MO from aqueous media in 30 min. The MO absorption by PEI-TGIC COF fitted with pseudo-first-order kinetic model, whereas MO absorption by p-PEI-TGIC COF fitted with pseudo-second-order kinetic model.