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Enhanced adsorption of p-arsanilic acid from water by amine modified UiO-67 as examined using EXAFS, XPS and DFT calculations Chen Tian, Jian Zhao, Xinwen Ou, Jieting Wan, Yuepeng Cai, Zhang Lin, Zhi Dang, and Baoshan Xing Environ. Sci. Technol., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b05761 • Publication Date (Web): 31 Jan 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on January 31, 2018

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Environmental Science & Technology

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Enhanced adsorption of p-arsanilic acid from water by amine

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modified UiO-67 as examined using EXAFS, XPS and DFT

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calculations

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Chen Tian, †,§ Jian Zhao, ‡,§ Xinwen Ou, † Jieting Wan, † Yuepeng Cai, ‖ Zhang Lin, *,†

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Zhi Dang, † and Baoshan Xing

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Restoration in Industry Clusters (Ministry of Education), Guangdong Engineering and Technology

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Research Center for Environmental Nanomaterials, South China University of Technology,

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Guangzhou 510006, China

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School of Environment and Energy, The Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Ecosystem

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Science and Ecology (Ministry of Education), Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China

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College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental

School of Chemistry and Environment, South China normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China

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Stockbridge School of Agriculture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA

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ABSTRACT

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p-Arsanilic acid (p-ASA) is an emerging organoarsenic pollutant comprising both

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inorganic and organic moieties. For the efficient removal of p-ASA, adsorbents with

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high adsorption affinity are urgently needed. Herein, amine modified UiO-67 (UiO-67-

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NH2) metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) were synthesized, and their adsorption

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affinities towards p-ASA were 2 times higher than that of the pristine UiO-67. Extended

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X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and

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density functional theory (DFT) calculation results revealed the adsorption through a

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combination of As-O-Zr coordination, hydrogen bonding, and π-π stacking, among

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which As-O-Zr coordination was the dominant force. Amine groups played a

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significant role in enhancing the adsorption affinity through strengthening the As-O-Zr

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coordination and π-π stacking, as well as forming new adsorption sites via hydrogen

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bonding. UiO-67-NH2s could remove p-ASA at low concentrations (< 5 mg L-1) in

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simulated natural and waste waters to an arsenic level lower than that in the drinking

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water standard of World Health Organization (WHO) and the surface water standard of

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China, respectively. This work provided an emerging and promising method to increase

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the adsorption affinity of MOFs towards pollutants containing both organic and

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inorganic moieties, via modifying functional groups based on the pollutant structure to

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achieve synergistic adsorption effect.

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INTRODUCTION

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As a typical phenylarsonic acid compound, p-arsanilic acid (p-ASA) is an emerging

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micropollutant, since its concentrations in water and soil were reported to be ranged

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from 0.5 to 5000 μg L-1 and 0.2 to 1000 μg kg-1, respectively.1-3 p-ASA is widely used

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as animal feed additives, due to its broad antimicrobial and nontoxic properties.4,5

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However, after excreted in manure, the water-soluble p-ASA would be degraded into

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high-toxic inorganic arsenic species (such as arsenate) in 30 days via the biotic and

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abiotic routes, thus leading to severe arsenic pollution in soil and groundwater.6,7 For

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example, in the Pearl River Delta of southern China, the concentration of p-ASA was

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detected up to 771 μg kg-1 in the surface soils surrounding swine farms, and the arsenic

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content was found to be far beyond the local background level.2 Therefore, the removal

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of p-ASA is crucial for maintaining the quality and safety of water and soil.

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To date, studies on p-ASA removal mainly focused on two types of techniques

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including degradation and adsorption.8,9 Comparing with the former technique,

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adsorption exhibited the advantages of higher efficiency, simpler operation, and lower

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risk of releasing inorganic arsenic into the environment. Several types of adsorbents

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have been studied for p-ASA adsorption, including ferric and manganese binary

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oxide,10 iron humate,11 and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).12 Among these

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adsorbents, MOFs are attracting more attentions because of their high porosity,

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controllable structure, and high adsorption capacity to p-ASA (up to 791 mg g-1).13

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However, the adsorption affinity of MOFs to p-ASA is relatively weak, since the

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adsorption is mainly depended on the electrostatic attraction and pore filling. Therefore, 4


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to achieve efficient and quick removal of p-ASA, especially at environmentally relevant

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concentrations (e.g., below 5 mg L-1), specific adsorption sites in MOF structures

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towards p-ASA are required.

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Our previous work revealed that roxarsone (ROX) could be efficiently adsorbed by

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Fe3O4-graphene nanocomposites through coordination, hydrogen bonding, and π-π

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stacking.14 Considering the similar structure of p-ASA with ROX, new strategies are

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expected to increase the adsorption affinity through the mentioned interactions. Such

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strategies should point to utilizing MOFs which contain metal clusters for the As-O-M

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(M stands for the metal clusters in MOFs) coordination, organic linkers with benzene

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rings for π-π stacking, and functional groups for forming hydrogen bonds with p-ASA.

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UiO-67 is a Zr-based MOF which comprises Zr6O4(OH)4 clusters as 12-connected

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nodes and linear 4,4’-biphenyldicarboxylic acid (BPDC) ligands.15 UiO-67 showed

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high application potential in practical water treatments due to its simple synthesis

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method and superior chemical stability.16 It consists of substantial octahedral (16 Å)

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and tetrahedral (12 Å) cages,17,18 and consequently can expose abundant active sites for

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p-ASA adsorption. Considering the -NH2 and -OH groups in p-ASA molecules, the

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incorporation of -NH2 groups to the BPDC ligands of UiO-67 (denote as UiO-67-NH2)

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is expected to enhance the adsorption affinity through hydrogen bonding.19-21 Moreover,

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other interactions are also expected between UiO-67-NH2 and p-ASA. It was reported

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that the missing-linkers in UiO-66 could induce defects in the Zr nodes, which could

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provide more Zr-OH groups and greatly enhance the capture of ROX via the stronger

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As-O-Zr coordination.22,23 Similarly, this effect is also predicted between the Zr nodes 5



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with defects in UiO-67-NH2 and p-ASA. In addition, the BPDC ligands in UiO-67-NH2

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are also expected to bind p-ASA through π-π stacking.24,25

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Therefore, we expect the defective UiO-67-NH2 to be a powerful and advanced

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material for the efficient adsorption of p-ASA from aqueous media. Herein, we aimed

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to: (1) determine the adsorption capacity, affinity and rate of defective UiO-67-NH2

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towards p-ASA in comparison with the pristine UiO-67, to confirm the enhanced

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adsorption of UiO-67-NH2; (2) analyze the contribution of As-O-Zr coordination, π-π

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stacking and hydrogen bonding to the adsorption via extended X-ray absorption fine

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structure (EXAFS), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and density functional

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theory (DFT) calculations; and (3) investigate the mechanism of amine modification on

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the enhancement of adsorption affinity. This study provides useful information on the

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design of novel and efficient materials for p-ASA removing via understanding the

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adsorption mechanism, and offers a new alternative to increase the adsorption affinity

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via the synergistic effect between the introduced functional groups.

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EXPERIMENTAL SECTION

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Synthesis and characterization of UiO-67 and UiO-67-NH2s

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The defective UiO-67 and its -NH2 modified derivatives were prepared using

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biphenyl-4,4’-dicarboxylic acid (BPDC) as ligand by following previously reported

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methods.22,26 The missing-linker-induced defects in the MOFs were produced by adding

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concentrated HCl during preparation. Two types of UiO-67-NH2s with different amine

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contents were obtained. The as-prepared UiO-67-NH2 that theoretically had one amine 6


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group per BPDC ligand was abbreviated as UiO-67-NH2(1), while the other one that

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had two -NH2 groups per BPDC ligand as UiO-67-NH2(2).

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The crystal structure, surface morphology, specific surface area and surface charge

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of UiO-67 and UiO-67-NH2s were analyzed using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning

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electron microscope (SEM), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) N2 adsorption/desorption

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method and zeta potential analyzer, respectively. Zeta potentials of the materials at pHs

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3-10 were determined using a NanoBrook Omni zeta potential analyzer (Brookhaven,

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USA). The concentration of the tested MOFs was 1 g L-1, and the pH was adjusted by

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HNO3 or KOH solution. Details of the characterization are provided in Section S1.

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Adsorption experiments

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For adsorption kinetic experiments, 0.045 g adsorbents were added to 300 mL p-ASA

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(Aladdin Bio-Chem Technology, China) solution at a concentration of 50 mg L-1, and

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shaken at pH 4.0 ± 0.1 and 25 C with a speed of 200 rpm for 1 min to 24 h. The

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adsorption kinetics curves were fitted with the pseudo-second-order non-linear kinetic

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model (SI Section S1). Adsorption isotherm studies were conducted with the p-ASA

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concentrations from 1 to 100 mg L-1, while the adsorbent concentration was kept at 0.15

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g L-1 in 30 mL solution (pH 4.0 ± 0.1). The mixtures were shaken under 25 C with a

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speed of 200 rpm for 24 h. After centrifugation separation, the residual p-ASA

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concentrations in the supernatants were measured by a UV-vis spectrometer (UV-2600,

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Shimadzu) at 252 nm. The adsorption isotherms were fitted with Langmuir and

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Freundlich models (SI Section S1). The effect of pH on adsorption was investigated by

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conducting adsorption experiments within the pH range of 3.0-10.0 at the p-ASA 7



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concentration of 50 mg L-1 and the adsorbent dosages of 0.15 g L-1.

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To detect the reusability of UiO-67 and UiO-67-NH2s, each adsorbent (5 mg) was

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firstly added to 30 mL p-ASA solution (pH 4.0 ± 0.1). After shaking for 24 h (25 C,

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200 rpm), the obtained adsorbents after adsorption were moved to 30 mL desorption

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solution containing 0.5 mol L-1 NaOH/ethanol, and shaking with a speed of 200 rpm at

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25 C for 1 h. The regenerated adsorbents were dried in a vacuum oven at 110 °C for

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12 h before the next adsorption cycle. The removal of p-ASA by UiO-67-NH2s in

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simulated natural and waste waters was studied in the presence of dissolved organic

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matter (DOM, 0-16 mg C L-1) and in swine manure lixivium (added p-ASA of 1-5 mg

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L-1). Experimental details were displayed in Section S1.

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EXAFS and XPS analyses

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EXAFS and XPS were used to investigate the interaction between p-ASA and UiO-

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67s.27 The samples on p-ASA (50 mg L-1) adsorbed UiO-67 and UiO-67-NH2s (0.15 g

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L-1) were prepared at pH 4.0, in a manner similar to the adsorption experiments. The K-

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edge EXAFS spectra of As in p-ASA-loaded samples were acquired at the beamline

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4W1B of the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility (BSRF). All EXAFS data were

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collected in the fluorescence mode at room temperature, using a Lytle detector equipped

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with Soller slits and Ge filter for screening scattering and fluorescence background. The

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maximum absorption edge As was set to 11875 eV. The EXAFS data analysis was

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performed using the ATHENA and ARTEMIS interfaces to the IFEFFIT version 1.2.11

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program package.28 Details of the EXAFS data collection and analysis are provided in

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Section S1. 8


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XPS spectra were analyzed using an Axis Ultra DLD instrument (Kratos Analytical,

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U.K.) with an A1 Kα X-ray source. Spectra were recorded at a pass energy of 160 eV

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for survey scans and 40 eV for high-resolution scans. High-resolution scans were

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carried out in an energy range of 295-280 eV for C 1s, and 405-395 eV for N 1s XPS

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spectra.

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Computational calculation

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DFT calculations were performed using the Vienna ab initio simulation package

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(VASP). The Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) functional, and the potential projector

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augmented wave (PAW) pseudo-potentials were used for all the calculations. The plane-

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wave cutoff energy was set to 500 eV, which has been previously tested and shown to

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be appropriate for UIO-67.29 Scalar relativistic effects were incorporated into the

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effective core potentials via explicit mass-velocity and Darwin corrections. Detailed

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calculation methods are provided in Section S1.

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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

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Characterization of the as-prepared MOFs

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The as-synthesized UiO-67 and UiO-67-NH2s exhibited typical characteristic peaks

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of Fm-3m symmetric space groups in the XRD patterns (Figure S1), consistent with the

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reported UiO-67 topology.30 The identical XRD peaks of UiO-67-NH2s with the

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pristine UiO-67 implied that introducing -NH2 groups did not change the framework

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structure. FTIR spectra of UiO-67-NH2s showed C-N and N-H stretching vibrations at

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1257 and 3300-3500 cm-1, respectively (Figure S2). The mole ratios of -NH2:Zr 9



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calculated from XPS data were 0.88 and 1.80 for UiO-67-NH2(1) and UiO-67-NH2(2),

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respectively (Table S1), which were similar to their theoretical values (1.0 for UiO-67-

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NH2(1) and 2.0 for UiO-67-NH2(2)). These results confirmed the successful amine

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modification of UiO-67. The structural illustrations of UiO-67, UiO-67-NH2(1) and

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UiO-67-NH2(2) are shown in Figure 1. The BET surface areas of UiO-67, UiO-67-

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NH2(1) and UiO-67-NH2(2) were 1871, 750, and 465 m2 g-1, respectively (Figure S3,

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and Table S1). The lower surface areas of UiO-67-NH2s compared with the pristine

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UiO-67 were probably due to the partial blocking of the pores by -NH2 groups on the

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surface (Figure 1a-1c).

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The as-prepared MOFs are thermally stable up to 320 °C as detected by the TG-MS

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(Figure S4) and temperature-dependent XRD (Figure S5). Therefore, based on the TGA

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data on the weight loss at 320-500 °C (Table S2, Figure S6), the numbers of the missing-

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linker induced defects for each unit of UiO-67, UiO-67-NH2(1) and UiO-67-NH2(2)

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were calculated as 4, 3.2 and 3.2, respectively. These defects would provide more

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binding centers towards p-ASA through the external Zr-OH groups,31 thus facilitating

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the p-ASA adsorption.

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Adsorption kinetics

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Adsorption kinetics of p-ASA by UiO-67 and UiO-67-NH2s was investigated and the

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results are shown in Figure 2a. All the kinetic curves were fitted using the pseudo-

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second order model, which was commonly used to describe adsorption kinetics in

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which chemisorption controlled the adsorption rate and the number of active sites

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determined the adsorption capacity.32 The obtained kinetic parameters are shown in 10


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Table S3. Good fits of the tested MOFs with the pseudo-second order model (R2 > 0.99)

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implied the adsorption of p-ASA on the tested MOFs was controlled by chemical

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interactions. The increased adsorption rates (k2) of UiO-67-NH2s relative to the pristine

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UiO-67 implied the enhancement of chemisorption between p-ASA and the amine

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modified MOFs. Moreover, in comparison with other porous MOFs (such as meso-ZIF-

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8 in ref.13), substantially enhanced adsorption rates were observed for UiO-67 and UiO-

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67-NH2s, which was possibly due to the stronger chemisorption between UiO-67s and

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p-ASA molecules.

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Adsorption isotherms

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Adsorption isotherms of UiO-67, UiO-67-NH2(1) and UiO-67-NH2(2) towards p-

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ASA are shown in Figure 2b. All isotherms were fitted well with Langmuir and

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Freundlich33,34 models (Table S4), but the R2 values of Langmuir model were higher.

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Therefore, the following discussion was mainly based on Langmuir-fitting results of all

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the MOFs. Maximum adsorption capacities (Qm) calculated from Langmuir model

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followed an order of UiO-67 > UiO-67-NH2(1) > UiO-67-NH2(2) (Figure 2b, Table S4).

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However, this order changed to an opposite sequence after normalizing by the surface

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area (Qm/Asurf in Figure 2c), indicating higher adsorption capacities of UiO-67-NH2s

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than the pristine UiO-67 deducting the effect of surface area. This observation could be

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explained by the steric hindrance of the introduced -NH2 groups situating in the aperture

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of the nanopores (Figure 1 and Table S1). The entry of p-ASA (with a molecule

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diameter of 6.625 Å13) to the internal part of UiO-67-NH2s would be obstructed because

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It was reported that materials with a small Qm and large affinity coefficient (KL) could

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have a larger value of qe when compared with materials with a large Qm and small KL,

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at low pollutant concentrations.35 Therefore, considering p-ASA as a micropollutant,

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the KL value was more significant than Qm. As shown in Table S4, KL values of UiO-

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67-NH2s were much higher than that of the pristine UiO-67, and increased with

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increasing -NH2 content. In order to further evaluate the adsorption affinity at different

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p-ASA concentrations, single point sorption coefficients (K)36 based on the Langmuir

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fitting results were calculated when Ce = 0.03 (K0.03) and 0.3 (K0.3) mg L-1. As shown

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in Table S4, both of K0.03 and K0.3 followed the order of UiO-67-NH2(2) > UiO-67-

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NH2(1) > UiO-67, indicating that UiO-67-NH2s had higher affinities towards p-ASA.

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The higher affinities made UiO-67-NH2s having higher qe compared with the pristine

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UiO-67 at low concentrations of p-ASA, as shown in the insert of Figure 2b. This is

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very important for the practical application of UiO-67-NH2s, considering that the

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concentrations of p-ASA in environment are usually very low.

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The comparison of adsorption capacity and affinity of the present UiO-67s with other

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adsorbents in the published literature is listed in Table S5. The Qm value of UiO-67

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(454.54 mg g-1) was higher than most of the reported absorbents. Despite that

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mesoporous ZIF-8 had the highest Qm (791 mg g-1) and Qm/Asurf (0.70 mg m-2), UiO-67-

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NH2(2) was more superior for p-ASA capture in practical applications due to its much

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higher adsorption capacity and affinity toward p-ASA (qe0.03 = 4.50 mg g-1 and K0.03 =

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150 L g-1) than ZIF-8 (qe0.03 = 0.76 mg g-1 and K0.03 = 25.3 L g-1) at low concentrations.

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The regeneration efficiency of UiO-67s is shown in Figure S7. Despite the adsorption

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capacities slightly decreased after the first recycle, UiO-67 and UiO-67-NH2(2) still

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exhibited considerable adsorption capacities after four cycles regeneration (over 85%

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of the original capacity). FTIR analysis showed the -NH and C-N vibration bands still

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present in UiO-67-NH2(2) after the first adsorption cycle (Figure S8), suggesting that

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the -NH2 moieties remained stable during the repeated adsorption process. Meanwhile,

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XRD results showed that the crystal structure of UiO-67 and UiO-67-NH2(2) did not

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change after regeneration (Figure S9). These results revealed that the UiO-67 and UiO-

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67-NH2(2) could be regenerated and reused for multiple times, thus confirming the

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practical value and application of UiO-67s as the adsorbents of p-ASA.

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Mechanism of p-ASA adsorption on UiO-67-NH2s

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To get insight into the adsorption mechanism of UiO-67-NH2s towards p-ASA,

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electrostatic interaction, As-O-Zr coordination, hydrogen bonding, and π-π interaction

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were taken into consideration.37 The effects of pH on the adsorption of p-ASA were

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studied to investigate the contribution of electrostatic interaction. Figure S10a showed

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that UiO-67 and UiO-67-NH2s exhibited the highest adsorption capacity at pH 4.0, and

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then sharply decreased with the increasing pHs. The isoelectric points of the three UiO-

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67s were determined to be between pH 4 and 5, and thus their zeta potentials were quite

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low at pH 4.0 (Figure S10b). Moreover, the aqueous dissociation constants (pKa) of p-

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ASA molecules were 1.91, 4.13 and 9.19, respectively (Figure S11). Therefore, the

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arsenic group in p-ASA is electroneutral at pH 4.0.38 These results indicated that the

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electrostatic attraction was not the dominant force for the p-ASA adsorption at pH 4.0. 13



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It has been well-documented that Zr-based materials could efficiently capture

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arsenate groups due to the bidentate binuclear and monodentate mononuclear

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complexes forming between the Zr-OH groups and As.22,39 For the as-prepared UiO-67

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and UiO-67-NH2s, these Zr-OH groups mainly originated from the defects present in

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Zr-O clusters.23,40 To further reveal the role of As-O-Zr coordination in p-ASA

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adsorption, x-ray adsorption spectroscopy of As was determined. The As-O and As-Zr

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shells could be obviously isolated in the k3-weighted As K-edge EXAFS spectra and

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the corresponding Fourier-transforms (Figure 3), indicating the formation of As-O-Zr

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inner-sphere complexes after adsorption. In all the samples, the As-O first-neighbor

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contributions were fit with 3.6-3.9 oxygen atoms at 1.69 Å (Table S6), which agreed

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with the DFT calculation in the previous study.39

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The second-neighbor contributions were fitted with the As-Zr atom distances of 3.44,

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3.41, and 3.40 Å for UiO-67, UiO-67-NH2(1) and UiO-67-NH2(2), respectively (Table

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S6). The As-Zr distances were consistent with that in the bidentate binuclear complex

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obtained from the DFT calculation (see details in the DFT Calculation section), which

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was also observed in other Zr-based MOFs.41 Moreover, the As-Zr distances in UiO-

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67-NH2(1) and UiO-67-NH2(2) were shorter than that in UiO-67, indicating that the

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amine modification of UiO-67 shortened the As-Zr atom distance, and thus formed

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stronger inner-sphere complexes. The enhanced As-O-Zr coordination was one of the

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explanations for the higher adsorption affinity of UiO-67-NH2s towards p-ASA than

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the pristine UiO-67.

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than the pristine UiO-67 (Table S6) also indicated stronger As-O-Zr coordination. Such

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enhancement could be ascribed to the synergistic effect of other interactions, such as π-

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π stacking and hydrogen bonding. Moreover, according to the Langmuir fitting results,

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the maximum molecule uptake of p-ASA by UiO-67 was found to be 5.3:1 (p-ASA:Zr6

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in Figure 4a), which exceeded the stoichiometric p-ASA:Zr6 value calculated by As-O-

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Zr coordination (4:1 of p-ASA:Zr6 based on the bidentate binuclear complex forming

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between p-ASA and the defective UiO-67 unit). Considering the absence of -NH2

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groups in UiO-67 ligands, the hydrogen bonds between the pristine UiO-67 and p-ASA

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were perceived to be relatively weak. Thus, the higher p-ASA uptake than the

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stoichiometric value was possibly due to the π-π stacking. Further indication was

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conducted with the high resolution C 1s XPS spectra (Figure 4b and 4c). For UiO-67s

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before p-ASA adsorption, three peaks were observed at 284.6 eV, 285.9 eV and 288.5

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eV, which belonged to the sp2 C=C, C-N, and O-C=O groups in the BPDC linkers.42,43

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The characteristic peak of π-π* component appeared at 291.2 eV44 after adsorption,

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suggesting the contribution of π-π stacking for p-ASA adsorption. Meanwhile, the π-π*

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proportions of UiO-67-NH2(1) and UiO-67-NH2(2) were 2.11% and 7.78%,

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respectively, which were both higher than that of the pristine UiO-67, suggesting the

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enhancement of π-π interaction after the -NH2 modification.

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Considering the higher adsorption affinity of UiO-67-NH2s than the pristine UiO-67,

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additional mechanism other than As-O-Zr coordination and π-π interaction should also

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contribute to the adsorption by UiO-67-NH2s. As mentioned above, the good fitting of

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capacities of UiO-67s were determined by the number of active sites on the

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adsorbents.32 Since the surface area of UiO-67-NH2(2) was only 60% of UiO-67-NH2(1)

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(Table S1), the active sites in UiO-67-NH2(2) could also conclude to be ~60% of those

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in UiO-67-NH2(1). Therefore, the adsorption capacity of UiO-67-NH2(2) should be

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about 60% of UiO-67-NH2(1) theoretically. However, the Langmuir-fitted adsorption

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capacity and the molecular uptake of p-ASA:Zr6 by UiO-67-NH2(2) were calculated to

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be 178 mg g-1 and 2.3:1, respectively, which were much higher than 60% of the p-ASA

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amount adsorbed by UiO-67-NH2(1) (Table S4 and Figure 4a). This result suggested

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that the additional -NH2 groups provided more active sites, thus enhancing the

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adsorption capacity and affinity of UiO-67-NH2(2). Considering the previous

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discussion, hydrogen bonds between UiO-67-NH2s and p-ASA were expected to be the

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key role for the enhancement. XPS N 1s results provided strong evidence for the

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hydrogen bond formation (Figure 4d and 4e). Before adsorption, the symmetrical peaks

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locating at 399.4 eV were attributed to the free -NH245 in the BPDC linkers of UiO-67-

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NH2s (Figure 4d). No signals of H-bonded -NH2 were observed in the spectra. After

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adsorption, although no -NH2 groups existing on the pristine UiO-67 structure, the peak

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for free -NH2 was still observed (Figure S12), which belonged to the adsorbed p-ASA.

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Moreover, a new peak assigned to H-bonded -NH2 at 400.2 eV45 was observed in the N

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1s spectra of UiO-67-NH2s after adsorption (Figurer 4e), and the peak ratio increased

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with the amine content in UiO-67-NH2s. This result indicated that these hydrogen bonds

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increased the sites for p-ASA adsorption on UiO-67-NH2s.

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DFT calculations

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To further elucidate the roles of -NH2 groups in UiO-67-NH2s for p-ASA adsorption,

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the possible interaction scenarios of UiO-67 and UiO-67-NH2(2) with p-ASA were

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further investigated at the molecular level through DFT calculation. For UiO-67, it was

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obvious that the As-O-Zr coordination had the highest interaction energy (-181.5 kJ

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mol-1 in Figure S13a) and was considered to be the most favorable adsorption force.

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The optimal configurations of the Zr nodes and p-ASA molecules suggested the

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formation of bidentate binuclear As-O-Zr complexes after adsorption (Figure S13a),

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which was consistent with the aforementioned EXAFS analysis. In addition, the

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relatively high adsorption energy (-40.2 kJ mol-1) of the π-π interaction between p-ASA

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and UiO-67 (face-centered distance, 3.8 Å, Figure S13b) indicated that the π-π stacking

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also played an important role in the adsorption.

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After amine modification, the optimal configurations between UiO-67-NH2(2) and

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p-ASA are shown in Figure 5. The As-O-Zr bidentate binuclear complex, π-π stacking

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and hydrogen bonds were all present in the UiO-67-NH2(2) samples after adsorption.

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Moreover, it was obvious that the binding energies of As-O-Zr coordination and π-π

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interaction in UiO-67-NH2(2) were both higher than those in the pristine UiO-67, while

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the As-Zr atom distance and the benzene rings face-centered distance were shorter

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(Figure 5, S13). These results indicated that As-O-Zr coordination and π-π stacking

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were enhanced after -NH2 modification. Moreover, -NH2 groups in UiO-67-NH2(2) also

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provided extra adsorption sites for p-ASA through hydrogen bonds with an optimal

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configuration of NH…O and a bonding energy of -52.4 kJ mol-1 (Figure 5c), thus 17



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further increasing the adsorption affinity. These results were in agreement with the

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EXAFS and XPS analyses. The interaction energies followed the order: UiO-67-NH2(2)

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and p-ASA > water molecule and p-ASA > p-ASA and p-ASA according to DFT

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calculation (Figure 5, S13), suggesting that p-ASA molecules were monolayerly

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adsorbed on UiO-67-NH2(2) because free p-ASA molecules cannot be further adsorbed

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by the bound p-ASA on UiO-67-NH2(2). Overall, p-ASA would form a monolayer

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adsorption on the surface of UiO-67-NH2(2), under the combined interactions of As-O-

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Zr coordination, π-π stacking and hydrogen bonding (Figure 6). It should be noted that

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amine groups on UiO-67-NH2(2) played a significant role in enhancing the adsorption

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affinity through forming new adsorption sites via hydrogen bonding, as well as

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strengthening the As-O-Zr coordination and π-π stacking.

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Adsorption behavior of amine modified UiO-67 in simulated natural and waste waters

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To test if UiO-67-NH2s could efficiently remove p-ASA for practical application,

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DOM containing water and swine manure lixivium were used to simulated natural and

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waste water, respectively. Adsorption results indicated that at a p-ASA concentration of

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0.5 mg L-1, the removal rate of UiO-67-NH2(2) was slightly decreased from 99.6% to

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98.7% when the DOM concentration increased from 0 to 16 mg C L-1, which were

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higher than those of UiO-67 (Figure 7a). When the DOM concentration was 16 mg C

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L-1, the residual arsenic concentrations after adsorbed by UiO-67-NH2(1) and UiO-67-

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NH2(2) were 4.15 and 2.26 μg L-1, respectively (Figure 7b), which were lower than the

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arsenic standard in drinking water of WHO (10 μg L-1). The adsorption results of UiO18


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67-NH2s in swine manure lixivium at different p-ASA concentrations are shown in

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Figure 7c. It can be seen that when the initial concentration of p-ASA was 5 mg L-1, a

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dosage of 0.15 g L-1 UiO-67-NH2(2) could decrease the arsenic concentration to 28.1

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μg L-1, which satisfied the arsenic standard in surface water of China (50 μg L-1,

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GB3838-2002). To reduce the arsenic concentration to the same level (below 50 μg L-

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respectively, which were 26.7 and 44.8 times higher than that of UiO-67-NH2(2) (Table

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S7). Moreover, since UiO-67 has already been studied as a water-treatment adsorbent

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for a period of time,16 its modification is supposed to be more simple and commercially

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available, compared with synthesizing a new MOF. These results suggested that the

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amine modified UiO-67 was a promising candidate for removing p-ASA from natural

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and waste waters.

), the needed dosages of graphene and activated carbon were 4 g L-1 and 6.7 g L-1,

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The defective UiO-67-NH2 designed based on the structural features of p-ASA

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showed high adsorption affinity towards p-ASA. The study of adsorption mechanism

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indicated that the contribution of different adsorption forces followed an order of As-

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O-Zr coordination > π-π stacking > H-bonding. The -NH2 groups in UiO-67-NH2

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played an important role for the efficient adsorption, including enhancing the As-O-Zr

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coordination and π-π stacking, as well as providing new adsorption sites for p-ASA

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adsorption through H-bonding. These synergistic interactions resulted in strong affinity

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of UiO-67-NH2 towards p-ASA, which were beneficial for the removal of p-ASA in 19



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simulated natural and waste waters. This study revealed great potential of -NH2

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modified UiO-67s for the removal of p-ASA in practical applications. Moreover, this

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work also provided a new route for increasing the adsorption affinity of adsorbents

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towards targeted pollutants through engineering different functional groups to achieve

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synergistic effects.

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ASSOCIATED CONTENT

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Supporting Information

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Thirteen figures, seven tables and experimental details are presented in Supporting

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Information section. The material is available free of charge via the Internet at

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http://pubs.acs.org.

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AUTHOR INFORMATION

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Corresponding Authors

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* Email: [email protected] (Dr. Zhang Lin); phone: 86-20-39380503; fax: 86-20-

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Notes

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The authors declare no competing financial interest.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant

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no. 21477129), the Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team

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Program (No. 2016ZT06N569), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (no. 20


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2016M600654), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (no.

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2017PY009 and 2017BQ054). The authors thank the beamline 4W1B (Beijing

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Synchrotron Radiation Facility) for providing the beam time.

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Figure 1. Perspective views of (a) UiO-67, (b) UiO-67-NH2(1), and (c) UiO-67-NH2(2);

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(d) Structure of the defective Zr6 node; (e) The BPDC linker for UiO-67 and its -NH2

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modified forms for UiO-67-NH2(1) and UiO-67-NH2(2). In (a), (b), and (c), Zr6 nodes,

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framework carbon and oxygen atoms are shown in cyan, white, and gray, respectively.

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Modified -NH2 moieties are shown in red.

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Figure 2. (a) Adsorption kinetics, (b) adsorption isotherms, and (c) surface area-

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normalized isotherms of p-ASA adsorbed by UiO-67, UiO-67-NH2(1) and UiO-67-

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NH2(2).

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Figure 3. Arsenic K-edge data for p-ASA adsorbed UiO-67 and UiO-67-NH2 samples:

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(a) filtered k3-weighted EXAFS data, (b) magnitude part of Fourier transformed R-

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space, and (c) real part of Fourier transformed R-space. Experimental and calculated

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curves are displayed as black solid lines and red open circles, respectively. Results of

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Figure 4. The uptake of p-ASA by UiO-67, UiO-67-NH2(1) and UiO-67-NH2(2), and

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related XPS analysis after p-ASA adsorption. (a) The uptake of p-ASA (adsorbed p-

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ASA / Zr6 node) by UiO-67, UiO-67-NH2(1) and UiO-67-NH2(2); XPS C 1s and N 1s

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spectra of UiO-67, UiO-67-NH2(1) and UiO-67-NH2(2) before (b, d) and after (c, e) p-

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ASA adsorption.

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Figure 5. The optimal configurations obtained via DFT calculations of (a) As-O-Zr

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coordination, (b) π-π stacking, (c) and H-bonding between UiO-67-NH2(2) and p- ASA

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(Magenta for As, cyan for Zr, red for O, blue for N, gray for C, and white for H). The

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interaction energy between UiO-67-NH2(2) and p-ASA was calculated to be -297.4 kJ

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mol-1 (As-O-Zr coordination π-π stacking, and H-bonding).

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Figure 6. The adsorption mechanism of UiO-67-NH2 towards p-ASA

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Figure 7. p-ASA adsorption by UiO-67, UiO-67-NH2(1) and UiO-67-NH2(2) in the

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presence of DOM or in swine manure lixiviums. (a) Effect of DOM on the removal

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lixiviums with different initial concentrations of p-ASA. The adsorbent concentrations

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were kept at 0.15 g L-1 in 30 mL solution. The mixtures were shaken at pH 4.0 ± 0.1

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