Carbon Ratio Controlled in-situ Synthesis of Ordered Mesoporous Hybrid Silica/Carbon Materials via Soft Template Method

Author(s):  
Shenbagapushpam Muthumanickam ◽  
Thennila Muthukumar ◽  
Muthu Mareeswaran Paulpandian ◽  
Sivabharathy Madasamy ◽  
Sundararajan Mayappan ◽  
...  

Abstract A strategy for synthesizing the ordered mesoporous hybrid silica-carbon materials with moderate pore volume and surface area are developed from the dry leaves powder of Tectonagrandis (TG) as carbon precursor by direct carbon loading method. Pre-activated carbon (PAC) has been generated from the dry leaves powder of TG by sulphuric acid assisted partial chemical activation method. The carbon content in silica matrix of the material is fixed up to 50 weight percentages with respect to silica which renders a novel and highly ordered hybrid Si/C mesoporous material by this direct carbon loading strategy. The physical-chemical analyses are supported that the synthesized hybrid Si/C materials are completely different from carbon coated hybrid Si/C materials. Among the synthesized materials, high surface area containing Si/C material has been chosen for dye adsorption which exhibits an excellent dye adsorption behavior with Methylene Blue (MB) dye up to 97% in short span of time.

Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suhong Ren ◽  
Liping Deng ◽  
Bo Zhang ◽  
Yafang Lei ◽  
Haiqing Ren ◽  
...  

Hierarchical porous carbon materials made from cork were fabricated using a facile and green method combined with air activation, without any templates and chemical agents. The influence of air activation on the texture and other surface characteristics of the carbon materials were evaluated by various characterization techniques. Results indicate that air oxidation can effectively improve the surface area and the hierarchical porous structure of carbon materials, as well as increase the number of oxygen-containing functional groups on the carbon surface. The specific surface area and the pore volume of the carbon material activated by air at 450 °C (C800-M450) can reach 580 m2/g and 0.379 cm3/g, respectively. These values are considerably higher than those for the non-activated material (C800, 376 m2/g, 0.201 cm3/g). The contents of the functional groups (C–O, C=O and O–H) increased with rising activation temperature. After air activation, the adsorption capacity of the carbon materials for methylene blue (MB) and methyl orange (MO) was increased from 7.7 and 6.4 mg/g for C800 to 312.5 and 97.1 mg/g for C800-M450, respectively. The excellent dye removal of the materials suggests that the porous carbon obtained from biomass can be potentially used for wastewater treatment.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jung Park ◽  
Gi Lee ◽  
Sang Hwang ◽  
Ji Kim ◽  
Bum Hong ◽  
...  

In this study, a feasible experiment on adsorbed natural gas (ANG) was performed using activated carbons (ACs) with high surface areas. Upgraded ACs were prepared using chemical activation with potassium hydroxide, and were then applied as adsorbents for methane (CH4) storage. This study had three principal objectives: (i) upgrade ACs with high surface areas; (ii) evaluate the factors regulating CH4 adsorption capacity; and (iii) assess discharge conditions for the delivery of CH4. The results showed that upgraded ACs with surface areas of 3052 m2/g had the highest CH4 storage capacity (0.32 g-CH4/g-ACs at 3.5 MPa), which was over two times higher than the surface area and storage capacity of low-grade ACs (surface area = 1152 m2/g, 0.10 g-CH4/g-ACs). Among the factors such as surface area, packing density, and heat of adsorption in the ANG system, the heat of adsorption played an important role in controlling CH4 adsorption. The released heat also affected the CH4 storage and enhanced available applications. During the discharge of gas from the ANG system, the residual amount of CH4 increased as the temperature decreased. The amount of delivered gas was confirmed using different evacuation flow rates at 0.4 MPa, and the highest efficiency of delivery was 98% at 0.1 L/min. The results of this research strongly suggested that the heat of adsorption should be controlled by both recharging and discharging processes to prevent rapid temperature change in the adsorbent bed.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 854 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanbo Xiao ◽  
Cheng-an Tao ◽  
Yujiao Li ◽  
Xianzhe Chen ◽  
Jian Huang ◽  
...  

Herein, a facile dopamine assisted one-pot synthesis approach is proposed for the preparation of porous carbon with a specific surface area (SSA) up to 2593 m2/g through the direct pyrolysis of a mixture of glucose, NH4Cl, and dopamine hydrochloride (DAH). The glucose is adopted as the carbon source and foaming agent, NH4Cl is used as the blowing agent, and DAH is served as collaborative carbon precursor as well as the nitrogen source for the first time. The effect of dopamine on the component, structure, and SSA of the as-prepared porous carbon materials are systematically studied. The moderate addition of dopamine, which influences the condensation and polymerization of glucose, matches better with ammonium salt decomposition. The SSA of porous carbon increases first and then decreases with the increasing amount of dopamine. In our case, the porous carbon produced with 5 wt% dopamine (PC-5) achieves the maximum SSA of up to 2593 m2/g. Accordingly, it also shows the greatest electrochemical performance. The PC-5 shows a capacitance of 96.7 F/g calculated from the discharge curve at 1 A/g. It also has a good capacitive rate capacity, the specific capacitance can still maintain 80%, even at a high current density of 10 A/g. Moreover, PC-5 exhibits a good cycling stability of 98.1% capacitive retention after 1000 cycles. The proposed method may show promising prospects for preparing porous carbon materials as advanced energy storage materials, storage, and catalyst supports.


RSC Advances ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (85) ◽  
pp. 45244-45250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Meng ◽  
Liyuan Zhang ◽  
Liyuan Chai ◽  
Wanting Yu ◽  
Ting Wang ◽  
...  

PmPD nanobelts with high adsorption performance have been synthesized by using CTAP as oxidants.


Author(s):  
Ali H. Jawad ◽  
Ahmed Saud Abdulhameed ◽  
Noor Nazihah Bahrudin ◽  
Nurul Nadiah Mohd Firdaus Hum ◽  
S. N. Surip ◽  
...  

Abstract In this work, sugarcane bagasse waste (SBW) was used as a lignocellulosic precursor to develop a high surface area activated carbon (AC) by thermal treatment of the SBW impregnated with KOH. This sugarcane bagasse waste activated carbon (SBWAC) was characterized by means of crystallinity, porosity, surface morphology and functional groups availability. The SBWAC exhibited Type I isotherm which corresponds to microporosity with high specific surface area of 709.3 m2/g and 6.6 nm of mean pore diameter. Further application of SBWAC as an adsorbent for methylene blue (MB) dye removal demonstrated that the adsorption process closely followed the pseudo-second order kinetic and Freundlich isotherm models. On the other hand, thermodynamic study revealed the endothermic nature and spontaneity of MB dye adsorption on SBWAC with high acquired adsorption capacity (136.5 mg/g). The MB dye adsorption onto SBWAC possibly involved electrostatic interaction, H-bonding and π-π interaction. This work demonstrates SBW as a potential lignocellulosic precursor to produce high surface area AC that can potentially remove more cationic dyes from the aqueous environment.


ACS Nano ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 2999-3013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Hartmann ◽  
Torsten Brezesinski ◽  
Joachim Sann ◽  
Andriy Lotnyk ◽  
Jens-Peter Eufinger ◽  
...  

Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiano Gomes Ferreira de Paula ◽  
Ignacio Campello-Gómez ◽  
Paulo Fernando Ribeiro Ortega ◽  
Francisco Rodríguez-Reinoso ◽  
Manuel Martínez-Escandell ◽  
...  

Although traditionally high-surface area carbon materials have been considered as rigid structures with a disordered three dimensional (3D) network of graphite microdomains associated with a limited electrical conductivity (highly depending on the porous structure and surface chemistry), here we show for the first time that this is not the case for activated carbon materials prepared using harsh activation conditions (e.g., KOH activation). In these specific samples a clear structural re-orientation can be observed upon adsorption of different organic molecules, the structural changes giving rise to important changes in the electrical resistivity of the material. Whereas short chain hydrocarbons and their derivatives give rise to an increased resistivity, the contrary occurs for longer-chain hydrocarbons and/or alcohols. The high sensitivity of these high-surface area carbon materials towards these organic molecules opens the gate towards their application for sensing devices.


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