MOF matrices for decontamination: publication in Materials Letters
Team LHYSThe fluorous compounds were compared to their hydrocarbon counterparts: both molecules present a hydrophilic moiety, responsible for metal chelation, and a hydrophobic chain, which enables solubility into organic media. But this chain is also oleophobic in the case of the fluorous compound. We observed that the oleophobic character the fluorous chain prevails over the tendency of hydrophilic moieties to self-assemble: in the organic phase, fluorous compounds lead to direct aggregates with a fluorous core, whereas hydrocarbon compounds lead to reverse aggregates with a hydrophilic core.
Read the article DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2019.04.113
Karima Sini, Damien Bourgeois, Madjid Idouhar, Michaël Carboni and Daniel Meyer, Materials letters 250, p 92 (2019)
