Highly sensitive and selective detection of mercury (II) based on a zirconium metal-organic framework in aqueous media

A novel metal-organic framework (MOF) UiO-66-PSM is obtained by the copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne click (CuAAC) reaction of UiO-66-N3 with phenylacetylene. This MOF exhibits the high potential in detecting Hg2+ in environmental water samples.152