Influence of the ultrasound-assisted synthesis of Cu-BTC metal-organic frameworks nanoparticles on uptake and release properties of rifampicin

In this work, we study uptake and release properties of rifampicin (denoted henceforth as Rif) from ultrasound-assisted synthesis Cu-BTC nanoparticles in comparison with bulk Cu-BTC and activated carbon. To explore the absorption ability of the Cu-BTC to Rif, fresh sample of Cu-BTC was immersed in an aqueous solution of Rif and were monitored in real time with UV/vis spectroscopy. Results show that the adsorbed quantity of Rif over nano Cu-BTC (denoted henceforth as I) is much higher than those over a bulk Cu-BTC (denoted henceforth as II) and activated carbon. In compound I and all of the nano-MOFs the channel length is decreased so that the amount of adsorption is increased a little. The samples were characterized with X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and UV/vis spectroscopy.