Shengqian Ma
Title: Functionalized Covalent Organic Frameworks for Water Purification
First and last name: Shengqian Ma
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, USA
Short Biography:
Shengqian Ma obtained his B.S. degree from Jilin University, China in 2003, and graduated from Miami University (Ohio) with a Ph.D. degree in 2008. After finishing two-year Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at Argonne National Laboratory, he joined the Department of Chemistry at University of South Florida (USF) as an Assistant Professor in August 2010. He was promoted to an Associate Professor with early tenure in 2015 and to a Full Professor in 2018. In August 2020, he joined the Department of Chemistry at University of North Texas (UNT) as the Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry.
Abstract:
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) represent an emerging class of nanoporous materials, and they feature robust framework structures with high water and chemical stability. This, together with their high surface areas and tunable pore sizes, makes them hold promise for a variety of applications. We will demonstrate how COFs can be task-specific designed and functionalized via either de novo synthesis or stepwise post-synthetic modification for applications in water purification including oil spill cleanup, heavy metal removal, and nuclear waste treatment.
- Sun, Q.; Aguila, B.; Song, Y.; Ma, S. "Tailored Porous Organic Polymers for Task-Specific Water Purification" Acc. Chem. Res., 2020, 53, 812-821.
- Sun, Q.; Aguila, B.; Perman, J.; Butts, T.; Xiao, F.-S.; Ma, S. "Integrating Superwettability within Covalent Organic Frameworks for Functional Coating" Chem, 2018, 4, 1726-1739.
- Sun, Q.; Aguila, B.; Perman, J.; Earl, L.; Abney, C.; Cheng, Y.; Wei, H.; Nguyen, N.; Wojtas, L.; Ma, S. "Post-synthetically Modified Covalent Organic Frameworks for Efficient and Effective Mercury Removal" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 2786-2793.
- Yang, H.; Hao, M.; Xie, Y.; Liu, X.; Liu, Y.; Chen, Z.; Wang, X. Waterhouse, G.; Ma, S. "Tuning Local Charge Distribution in Multicomponent Covalent Organic Frameworks for Dramatically Enhanced Photocatalytic Uranium Extraction" Angew Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 62, e202303129.
Figure 1: Task-specific functionalized COFs for water purification.