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Optimal Surface Amino-Functionalization Following Thermo-Alkaline Treatment of Nanostructured Silica Adsorbents for Enhanced and Selective CO2 Adsorption
Medina-Juárez, O.; García-Sánchez, M.Á.; Arellano-Sánchez, U.; Kornhauser-Straus, I.; Rojas-González, F. Optimal Surface Amino-Functionalization Following Thermo-Alkaline Treatment of Nanostructured Silica Adsorbents for Enhanced CO2 Adsorption. Materials2016, 9, 898.
Medina-Juárez, O.; García-Sánchez, M.Á.; Arellano-Sánchez, U.; Kornhauser-Straus, I.; Rojas-González, F. Optimal Surface Amino-Functionalization Following Thermo-Alkaline Treatment of Nanostructured Silica Adsorbents for Enhanced CO2 Adsorption. Materials 2016, 9, 898.
Medina-Juárez, O.; García-Sánchez, M.Á.; Arellano-Sánchez, U.; Kornhauser-Straus, I.; Rojas-González, F. Optimal Surface Amino-Functionalization Following Thermo-Alkaline Treatment of Nanostructured Silica Adsorbents for Enhanced CO2 Adsorption. Materials2016, 9, 898.
Medina-Juárez, O.; García-Sánchez, M.Á.; Arellano-Sánchez, U.; Kornhauser-Straus, I.; Rojas-González, F. Optimal Surface Amino-Functionalization Following Thermo-Alkaline Treatment of Nanostructured Silica Adsorbents for Enhanced CO2 Adsorption. Materials 2016, 9, 898.
Abstract
Special preparation of SBA-15 materials has been carried out for creating adsorbents exhibiting an enhanced and selective adsorption toward CO2. This creation starts from an adequate conditioning of the silica surface, via a thermo-alkaline treatment to increase the population of silanol species on it. CO2 adsorption is only reasonably achieved when the SiO2 surface becomes aminated after put in contact with a solution of an amino alkoxide compound in the right solvent. Unfunctionalized and amine-functionalized substrates were characterized through X-ray diffraction, N2 sorption, Raman spectroscopy, electron microscopy, 29Si solid-state NMR, and NH3 thermal programmed desorption. These analyses proved that the thermo-alkaline procedure desilicates the substrate and eliminates the micropores (without affecting the SBA-15 capillaries), present in the original solid. NMR analysis confirms that the hydroxylated solid anchors more amino functionalizing molecules than the unhydroxylated material. The SBA-15 sample subjected to hydroxylation and amino- functionalization displays a high enthalpy of interaction, a reason why this solid is suitable for a strong deposition of CO2 but with the possibility of observing a low-pressure hysteresis phenomenon. Contrastingly, CH4 adsorption on amino-functionalized, hydroxylated SBA-15 substrates becomes almost 5 times lesser than the CO2 one, thus giving proof of their selectivity toward CO2.
Keywords
CO2 enhanced capture; SBA-15 habilitation for CO2 sorption; desilication; silanol functionalization; covalent coordinated CO2 deposition
Subject
Chemistry and Materials Science, Surfaces, Coatings and Films
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