Sustainable synthesis of a Zr-based UiO-66 MOF from PET waste for UV-assisted degradation of organic contaminants
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- 29 October 2026
- journal article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in RSC Advances
- Vol. 16 (47) , 62330-62344
Abstract
Terephthalic acid recovered from post-consumer PET waste was utilized to synthesize UiO-66, demonstrating a sustainable waste-to-resource strategy for the photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue in water.Keywords
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