Porous Materials For Sustainability Research Group

POROUS MATERIALS FOR SUSTAINABILITY
RESEARCH GROUP

CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT

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Research Overview

Innovation method, rational design, synthesis, modification, and characterization of porous materials (zeolites, metal-organic frameworks, coordination polymers) or metal complexes as the applied organometallic chemistry in energy storage and conversion, biomedicine, environmental protection, and catalyst application.

Core Areas of Expertise

Synthesis & Modification of Porous Materials

The synthesis of Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) has been developed by our group using various methods, which of course are based on green chemistry. Synthetic methods that we have developed such as electrosynthesis of MOFs based on Ni metal and H3BTC ligands, Modification of organic linkers as potential linkers in MOFs. In addition, our group has also succeeded in modifying porous materials such as MOFs and zeolites with other materials, so that these porous materials can be used as support materials in an application field.

Selected Publications:

  • Lestari, W.W., Lönnecke, P., Sárosi, M.B., Streit, H.C., Adlung, M., Wickleder, C., Handke, M., Einicke, W.-D., Gläser, R., Hey-Hawkins, E. 2013. Syntheses, structures and luminescence properties of novel metal-organic frameworks based on zinc(ii), cadmium(ii) or lead(ii) and a 2,2′- dimethoxy-functionalised biphenyl linker. CrystEngComm, 15 (19), pp. 3874-3884. DOI: 10.1039/c3ce40179k
  • Lestari, W.W., Streit, H.C., Lönnecke, P., Wickleder, C., Hey-Hawkins, E. 2014. Synthesis, structure and luminescence properties of a cadmium(ii)-based coordination polymer with (S)-4,4′-bis(4-carboxyphenyl)-2,2′- bis(diphenylphosphinoyl)-1,1′-binaphthyl as chiral linker. Dalton Transactions, 43 (22), pp. 8188-8195.
  • Lestari, W.W., Winarni, I.D., Rahmawati, F. 2017. Electrosynthesis of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)Based on Nickel(II) and Benzene 1,3,5-Tri Carboxylic Acid (H3BTC): An Optimization Reaction Condition. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 172 (1), art. no. 012064, DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/172/1/012064
  • Lestari, W.W., Ni’Maturrohmah, D., Arrozi, U.S.F., Suwarno, H. 2018. Mg2+ Doped into Electro-synthesized HKUST-1 and Their Initial Hydrogen Sorption Properties. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 299 (1), art. no. 012031, DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/299/1/012031

Energy Storage & Conversion

Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) have the potential to be developed as energy storage. Our group has succeeded in developing MOFs material as hydrogen and methane storage. The types of MOFs that our group has experimented with include HKUST-1 and Zr metal-based MOFs and H3BTC ligands.

Selected Publications:

  • Lestari, W.W., Adreane, M., Purnawan, C., Fansuri, H., Widiastuti, N., Rahardjo, S.B. 2016. Solvothermal and electrochemical synthetic method of HKUST-1 and its methane storage capacity IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 107 (1), art. no. 012030, DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/107/1/012030
  • Lestari, W.W., Adreane, M., Suwarno, H. 2017. Enhanced hydrogen storage capacity over electro-synthesized HKUST-1. Journal of Mathematical and Fundamental Sciences, 49 (3), pp. 213-224. DOI: 10.5614/j.math.fund.sci.2017.49.3.1
  • Lestari, W.W., Afifah, E.N., Mohammed, O., Saraswati, T.E., Al-Adawiyah, R., Kadja, G.T.M., Widiastuti, N. 2019. DUT-5 modified Pd metal-nanoparticles: Synthesis, chemical stability, and hydrogen sorption studies. Materials Research Express, 6 (12), art. no. 1250D4, DOI: 10.1088/2053-1591/ab637c
  • Lestari, W.W., Larasati, Suwarno, H., Arrozi, U.S.F. 2019. Spillover effect on Pd-embedded metal-organic frameworks based on zirconium(IV) and benzene 1,3,5-tricarboxylate as hydrogen storage materials. Materials Research Express, 6 (8), art. no. 084001, DOI: 10.1088/2053-1591/ab1bc7

Biomedicine

In the biomedical field, porous materials have potential with large drug loading capacities. Several types of MOFs are safe and have good bioavailability in the body. Magnesium and Iron metal-based MOFs are the types of MOFs that our group has successfully developed as drug delivery candidates using aspirin, ibuprofen, and curcumin as drug models, with slow-release or controlled-release study.

Selected Publications:

  • Faaizatunnisa, N., Lestari, W. W., Saputra, O. A., Saraswati, T. E., Larasati, L., Wibowo, F. R. 2022. Slow‑Release of Curcumin Induced by Core–Shell Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles (MSNs) Modifed MIL‑100(Fe) Composite, Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials. DOI : 10.1007/s10904-022-02230-2
  • Lestari, W.W., Tedra, R.A., Rosari, V.A., Saraswati, T.E. 2020. The novel composite material MOF-[Mg3(BTC)2]/GO/Fe3O4 and its use in slow-release ibuprofen. Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 34 (8), art. no. e5670, DOI: 10.1002/aoc.5670
  • Rosari, V.A., Lestari, W.W., Firdaus, M. 2020. Synthesis of aspirin-ligated cisplatin derivatives and its slow release study over MIL-101(Fe). Chemical Papers, 74 (8), pp. 2733-2741. DOI: 10.1007/s11696-020-01114-4
  • Lestari, W.W., Arvinawati, M., Martien, R., Kusumaningsih, T. 2018. Green and facile synthesis of MOF and nano MOF containing zinc(II) and benzen 1,3,5-tri carboxylate and its study in ibuprofen slow-release. Materials Chemistry and Physics, 204, pp. 141-146. DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2017.10.034

Environmental Protection

In the environmental protection field, porous material can be used as a support material for filtration and separation purposes. MOF-type based on Materials Institute of Lavoisier (MILs) in our group were used as adsorbent in water-filtration system based on the catalytic and adsorption studies. Our group also actively develops membrane-based gas separation material with the use of MOFs as fillers on mixed matrix membranes (MMMs).

Selected Publications:

  • Lestari, W.W., Wibowo, A.H., Astuti, S., Irwinsyah, Pamungkas, A.Z., Krisnandi, Y.K. 2018. Fabrication of hybrid coating material of polypropylene itaconate containing MOF-5 for CO2 capture. Progress in Organic Coatings, 115, pp. 49-55. DOI: 10.1016/j.porgcoat.2017.11.006
  • Lestari, W.W., Rahman, B.F., Pratama, J.H., Handayani, D.S., Gunawan, T., Widiastuti, N., Fansuri,H. 2021. Fabrication of hybrid membranes based on poly(ether-sulfone)/Materials Institute Lavoisier (MIL-53)(Al) and its enhanced CO2 gas separation performance. Chemical Papers, 75 (12), pp. 6519-6530. DOI: 10.1007/s11696-021-01816-3.
  • Wibowo, A.H., Lestari, W.W., Teteki, F.J., Krisnandi, Y.K., Suratman, A. 2016. A preliminary study of functional coating material of polypropylene itaconate incorporated with [Cu3(BTC)2] MOF as CO2 adsorbent. Progress in Organic Coatings, 101, pp. 537-542. DOI: 10.1016/j.porgcoat.2016.09.025

Catalyst

Porous material such as zeolites and MOFs are highly potential to be applied as the solid catalyst. Our previous work has successfully use HKUST-1 and natural zeolite incorporated with metal as catalyst in green diesel production. On the other hand, our synthesized Zr-MOF is also successfully applied as catalyst in the esterification reaction of palmitic acid.

Selected Publications:

  • Putra, R., Lestari, W.W., Wibowo, F.R., Susanto, B.H. 2018. Fe/Indonesian natural zeolite as hydrodeoxygenation catalyst in green diesel production from palm oil. Bulletin of Chemical Reaction Engineering Catalysis, 13, pp. 245-255. DOI: 10.9767/bcrec.13.2.1382.245-255.
  • Larasati, I., Winarni, D., Putri, F.R., Hanif, Q.A., Lestari, W.W. 2017. Synthesis of Metal-organic Frameworks Based on Zr4+ and Benzene 1,3,5-Tricarboxylate Linker as Heterogeneous Catalyst in the Esterification Reaction of Palmitic Acid. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 214 (1), art. no. 012006. DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/214/1/012006.
  • Lestari, W.W., Nugraha, R.E., Winarni, I.D., Adreane, M., Rahmawati, F. 2016. Optimization on electrochemical synthesis of HKUST-1 as candidate catalytic material for Green diesel production. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1725, art. no. 020038. DOI: 10.1063/1.4945492.

Advanced Characterization

The research works of our group have the capability to fully characterize materials using various shared facilities between campuses, including surface area analyzer (SAA), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDX/EDS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), atomic force microscopy (AFM), etc.