Ibuprofen contamination from water sources has been increasingly alarming due to its environmentally accumulative retention; however, the strategies for ibuprofen-containing water treatment are still an enormous challenge. Herein, we described the utilization of metal-organic frameworks MIL-53(Fe) (MIL = Materials of Institute Lavoisier) for the adsorption of ibuprofen in synthetic solution. Firstly, the MIL-53(Fe) was solvothemally synthesized and then characterized using the X-ray diffraction and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy techniques. The optimization of ibuprofen adsorption over MIL-53(Fe) was performed with three independent variables including ibuprofen concentration (1.6–18.4 mg/L), adsorbent dosage (0.16–1.84 g/L), and pH (2.6–9.4) according to the experimental design from response surface methodology. Under the optimized conditions, more than 80% of ibuprofen could be eliminated from water, indicating the promising potential of the MIL-53(Fe) material for treatment of this drug. Kinetic and isotherm models also were used to elucidate the chemisorption and monolayer behavior mechanisms of ibuprofen over MIL-53(Fe).

The phonon-assisted cyclotron-resonance (PACR) effect due to the one-photon (1P) and two-photon (2P) absorption processes in a quantum well (QW) with the Pöschl-Teller (PT) potential is studied. The magneto-optical absorption coefficient as functions of photon energy for different QW-parameters, magnetic fields, and temperatures is presented. The calculations are done for four different possible cases: both 1P- and 2P-processes as well as both phonon emission and absorption processes. The numerical results for a GaAs, InAs, InSb, and GaSb PT-QW show that the PACR peaks are blueshifted with $\kappa$ and magnetic field, redshifted with QW-length, but remained unchanged with temperature. Peak intensities are found to increase with $\kappa$ and magnetic field and decrease with QW-length but have a complex dependency on the temperature. The full-width at half-maximum is found to increase with $\kappa$ , magnetic field, and temperature but found to decrease with QW-length. The phonon emission process is always dominant in comparison with absorption. The 2P-process is comparable with the 1P-process and should be taken into account when studying the PACR in QWs.

In the present work, we consider systematically the electronic and optical properties of two-dimensional monolayer germanium monosulfide (GeS) under uniaxial strains along armchair (AC-strain) and zigzag (ZZ-strain) directions. Our calculations show that, at the equilibrium state, the monolayer GeS is a semiconductor with an indirect band gap of 1.82 eV. While monolayer GeS is still an indirect band gap semiconductor under ZZ-strain, an indirect–direct energy gap transition can be found in the monolayer GeS when the AC-strain is applied. The optical spectra of the monolayer GeS have strong anisotropy in the investigated energy range from 0 eV to 8 eV. Based on optical properties, we believe that the monolayer GeS is a potential candidate for applications in energy conversion and optoelectronic technologies.