Supporting Information 
SYNTHESIS OF ONE COVALENT ORGANIC FRAMEWORK (COF) 
BASED ON C=N BONDS AND ITS EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE OF 
IODINE ADSORPTION 
Yingbin Zhang, Limei Li, Meige Wang, and Zhongyu Duan* 
School of Chemical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, 1 Dingzigu 
Road, Tianjin, 300130, China. E-mail: zyduan@hebut.edu.cn 
Table of Contents 
Figure S1 FT-IR of TAPT and COF-1………………………………………..…………………………S2 
Figure S2 TG of COF-1…………………………………………………………...………………….…S2 
Table S1 Comparison of iodine uptake of different adsorbents…………………….……………………S3 
Figure S3 I2@COF-1 release in anhydrous methanol………………………………..…………………S3 
Figure S4 Calibration plot of standard I2…………………………………………...……………………S4 
Figure S5 The fitting of Abs value vs concentration of I2………………………….…………………….S4 
Figure S6 1H NMR of TAPT……………………………………………………..……………………...S5 
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 Wavenumber(cm-1)
Transmittance[%]
  -C=N-1670cm-1
Wavenumber(nm)
Figure S1  FT-IR spectra of TAPT and COF-1 
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74.42%
Weight(%)
Temperature(℃)
Figure S2  TG curves of COF-1 
Table S1 Comparison of iodine uptake of different adsorbents 
Adsorbents Temperature(K) Iodine uptake(mg/g) Ref. 
NTP 348 300 1 
Ag+-MOR 368 275 2 
Ag@Mon-POF 343 250 3 
CMPN-2,-3 343 1100,2080 4 
Azo-Trip 350 2330 5 
Nip-CMP 350 2020 6 
ZIF-8 350 1250 7 
Cu-BTC 348 1750 8 
CC3 293 364 9 
PAF-21 348 1520 10 
[Cu6(pybz)8(OH)2] 413 760 11 
[Fe3(HCOO)6](I2)0.84 298 488 12 
MoSx 333 1000 13 
Polyurethane(PU1) 343 1284 14 
3D-PPy 353 1600 15 
PAF-1 298 1860 16 
       
Figure S3  I2@COF-1 release in anhydrous methanol 
200300400500600
 0.002mg/mL 0.004mg/mL 0.006mg/mL 0.008mg/mL 0.012mg/mL
Wavelength(nm)
Figure S4  Calibration plot of standard I2 by UV-vis spectra in methanol solution 
0.0020.0040.0060.0080.0100.012
Concentration(mg/mL)
y=0.1057+34.7027xR=0.99688
Figure S5  The fitting of Abs value vs concentration of I2 with the relatively good linearity satisfies 
Lambert-Beer Law 
Figure S6  1H NMR of 1,3,5-tri-(4-amino-phenyl) triazine (TAPT) 
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