{"id":230205,"date":"2026-01-31T01:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/3d-covalent-organic-framework-offers-sustainable-solution-for-wastewater-treatment"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:20:21","slug":"3d-covalent-organic-framework-offers-sustainable-solution-for-wastewater-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/3d-covalent-organic-framework-offers-sustainable-solution-for-wastewater-treatment","title":{"rendered":"3D covalent organic framework offers sustainable solution for wastewater treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-covalent-organic-framework-offers-sustainable-solution-for-wastewater-treatment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Industrial dye pollution remains one of the most persistent and hazardous challenges in global wastewater management. The dyes from textile and chemical manufacturing sectors are difficult to remove, non-biodegradable, and can be toxic to plants, animals, and humans. However, conventional treatment technologies for dyes often fail to efficiently purify the wastewater without significant trade-offs.<\/p>\n<p>To remedy this issue, researchers from Tohoku University developed a three-dimensional covalent organic framework (COF), TU-123, that enables highly efficient and selective removal of anionic dyes from contaminated water.<\/p>\n<p>The highly porous COF acts like a sponge\u2014trapping dyes for easier separation. This work establishes a new structural blueprint for constructing highly connected <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-11-metal-framework-materials-dye-contaminants.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">imidazole-linked<\/a> three-dimensional COFs. Furthermore, it opens sustainable pathways for advanced wastewater purification technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industrial dye pollution remains one of the most persistent and hazardous challenges in global wastewater management. The dyes from textile and chemical manufacturing sectors are difficult to remove, non-biodegradable, and can be toxic to plants, animals, and humans. However, conventional treatment technologies for dyes often fail to efficiently purify the wastewater without significant trade-offs. To [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}