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Taylor CL, Klemm A, Al-Mahbobi L, Bradford BJ, Gurkan B, Pentzer EB. Ionic Liquid-Glycol Mixtures for Direct Air Capture of CO 2: Decreased Viscosity and Mitigation of Evaporation Via Encapsulation. ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING 2024; 12:7882-7893. [PMID: 38783843 PMCID: PMC11110104 DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c01265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2024] [Revised: 04/25/2024] [Accepted: 04/26/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
Abstract
Herein we address the efficiency of the CO2 sorption of ionic liquids (IL) with hydrogen bond donors (e.g., glycols) added as viscosity modifiers and the impact of encapsulating them to limit sorbent evaporation under conditions for the direct air capture of CO2. Ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, 1,3-propanediol, and diethylene glycol were added to three different ILs: 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium 2-cyanopyrrolide ([EMIM][2-CNpyr]), 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([EMIM][BF4]), and 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([BMIM][BF4]). Incorporation of the glycols decreased viscosity by an average of 51% compared to bulk IL. After encapsulation of the liquid mixtures using a soft template approach, thermogravimetric analysis revealed average reductions in volatility of 36 and 40% compared to the unencapsulated liquid mixtures, based on 1 h isothermal experiments at 25 and 55 °C, respectively. The encapsulated mixtures of [EMIM][2-CNpyr]/1,3-propanediol and [EMIM][2-CNpyr]/diethylene glycol exhibited the lowest volatility (0.0019 and 0.0002 mmol/h at 25 °C, respectively) and were further evaluated as CO2 absorption/desorption materials. Based on the capacity determined from breakthrough measurements, [EMIM][2-CNpyr]/1,3-propanediol had a lower transport limited absorption rate for CO2 sorption compared to [EMIM][2-CNpyr]/diethylene glycol with 0.08 and 0.03 mol CO2/kg sorbent, respectively; however, [EMIM][2-CNpyr]/diethylene glycol capsules exhibited higher absorptions capacity at ∼500 ppm of CO2 (0.66 compared to 0.47 mol of CO2/kg sorbent for [EMIM][2-CNpyr]/1,3-propanediol). These results show that glycols can be used to not only reduce IL viscosity while increasing physisorption sites for CO2 sorption, but also that encapsulation can be utilized to mitigate evaporation of volatile viscosity modifiers.
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Affiliation(s)
- Cameron
D. L. Taylor
- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas
A&M University, College
Station, Texas 77843, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering Biomolecular Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas
A&M University, College
Station, Texas 77843, United States
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas
A&M University, College
Station, Texas 77843, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering Biomolecular Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas
A&M University, College
Station, Texas 77843, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
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Al-Ithawi WKA, Aluru R, Baklykov AV, Khasanov AF, Kovalev IS, Nikonov IL, Kopchuk DS, Novikov AS, Santra S, Zyryanov GV, Ranu BC. Mechanosynthesis of Polyureas and Studies of Their Responses to Anions. Polymers (Basel) 2023; 15:4160. [PMID: 37896404 PMCID: PMC10611254 DOI: 10.3390/polym15204160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2023] [Revised: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 09/05/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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Polyureas (PUs) have already found wide practical applications, and various methods of their synthesis have been reported. In this manuscript, we wished to report the very first mechanochemical approach towards aromatic PUs via reactions between isomeric 2,2'-, 3,3'-, and 4,4'-diaminobiphenyls and triphosgene under solvent-free conditions following ball-milling. By using this synthetic approach, both PUs and azomethine-capped Pus were obtained. The fluorescence response of the above-mentioned PUs towards various anions in solutions were studied and selective fluorescence responses towards the hydroxyl and fluoride anions were observed.
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- Wahab K. A. Al-Ithawi
- Chemical Engineering Institute, Ural Federal University, 19 Mira St., Yekaterinburg 620002, Russia; (W.K.A.A.-I.); (R.A.); (A.F.K.); (I.S.K.); (I.L.N.); (D.S.K.); (S.S.); (B.C.R.)
- Energy and Renewable Energies Technology Center, University of Technology-Iraq, Baghdad 10066, Iraq
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- Chemical Engineering Institute, Ural Federal University, 19 Mira St., Yekaterinburg 620002, Russia; (W.K.A.A.-I.); (R.A.); (A.F.K.); (I.S.K.); (I.L.N.); (D.S.K.); (S.S.); (B.C.R.)
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- I. Ya. Postovsky Institute of Organic Synthesis of RAS (Ural Division), 22/20 S. Kovalevskoy/Akademicheskaya St., Yekaterinburg 620219, Russia;
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- Chemical Engineering Institute, Ural Federal University, 19 Mira St., Yekaterinburg 620002, Russia; (W.K.A.A.-I.); (R.A.); (A.F.K.); (I.S.K.); (I.L.N.); (D.S.K.); (S.S.); (B.C.R.)
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- Chemical Engineering Institute, Ural Federal University, 19 Mira St., Yekaterinburg 620002, Russia; (W.K.A.A.-I.); (R.A.); (A.F.K.); (I.S.K.); (I.L.N.); (D.S.K.); (S.S.); (B.C.R.)
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- Chemical Engineering Institute, Ural Federal University, 19 Mira St., Yekaterinburg 620002, Russia; (W.K.A.A.-I.); (R.A.); (A.F.K.); (I.S.K.); (I.L.N.); (D.S.K.); (S.S.); (B.C.R.)
- I. Ya. Postovsky Institute of Organic Synthesis of RAS (Ural Division), 22/20 S. Kovalevskoy/Akademicheskaya St., Yekaterinburg 620219, Russia;
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- Chemical Engineering Institute, Ural Federal University, 19 Mira St., Yekaterinburg 620002, Russia; (W.K.A.A.-I.); (R.A.); (A.F.K.); (I.S.K.); (I.L.N.); (D.S.K.); (S.S.); (B.C.R.)
- I. Ya. Postovsky Institute of Organic Synthesis of RAS (Ural Division), 22/20 S. Kovalevskoy/Akademicheskaya St., Yekaterinburg 620219, Russia;
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- Institute of Chemistry, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya Nab., 7/9, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia;
- Research Institute of Chemistry, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Miklukho-Maklaya Street, 6, Moscow 117198, Russia
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- Chemical Engineering Institute, Ural Federal University, 19 Mira St., Yekaterinburg 620002, Russia; (W.K.A.A.-I.); (R.A.); (A.F.K.); (I.S.K.); (I.L.N.); (D.S.K.); (S.S.); (B.C.R.)
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- Chemical Engineering Institute, Ural Federal University, 19 Mira St., Yekaterinburg 620002, Russia; (W.K.A.A.-I.); (R.A.); (A.F.K.); (I.S.K.); (I.L.N.); (D.S.K.); (S.S.); (B.C.R.)
- I. Ya. Postovsky Institute of Organic Synthesis of RAS (Ural Division), 22/20 S. Kovalevskoy/Akademicheskaya St., Yekaterinburg 620219, Russia;
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- Chemical Engineering Institute, Ural Federal University, 19 Mira St., Yekaterinburg 620002, Russia; (W.K.A.A.-I.); (R.A.); (A.F.K.); (I.S.K.); (I.L.N.); (D.S.K.); (S.S.); (B.C.R.)
- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700 032, India
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Starvaggi NC, Bradford BJ, Taylor CDL, Pentzer EB. Wettability-tuned silica particles for emulsion-templated microcapsules. SOFT MATTER 2023; 19:7635-7643. [PMID: 37772468 DOI: 10.1039/d3sm00860f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/30/2023]
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Pickering emulsions play a significant role in generating advanced materials and have widespread application in personal care products, consumer goods, crude oil refining, energy management, etc. Herein, we report a class of wettability tuned silica-based Pickering emulsifiers which stabilize a diverse range of fluid-fluid interfaces: oil/water, ionic liquid/oil, and oil/oil, and their use to prepare microcapsules via interfacial polymerization. To alter particle wettability, colloidal suspensions of SiO2 particles (22 nm) were modified via silanization with reagents of varied hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity, giving particles that could be dispersed in solvents that became the continuous phase of the emulsions. To test the viability of this system as templates for the fabrication of composite materials, the different particle-stabilized emulsions were coupled with interfacial polymerization, leading to microcapsules with polyurea/silica shells. These results demonstrate that a single particle feedstock can be coupled with fundamental chemical transformation to access a versatile toolkit for the stabilization of diverse fluid interfaces and serve as a template for the preparation of hybrid architectures.
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- Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Dept. of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
- Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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Hussain Solangi N, Hussin F, Anjum A, Sabzoi N, Ali Mazari S, Mubarak N, Kheireddine Aroua M, Siddiqui M, Saeed Qureshi S. A review of encapsulated ionic liquids for CO2 capture. J Mol Liq 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2023.121266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Edgehouse K, Starvaggi N, Rosenfeld N, Bergbreiter D, Pentzer E. Impact of Shell Composition on Dye Uptake by Capsules of Ionic Liquid. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2022; 38:13849-13856. [PMID: 36315518 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Encapsulation of ionic liquids (ILs) has been shown to be an effective technique to overcome slow mass transfer rates and handling difficulties that stem from the high viscosity of bulk ILs. These systems commonly rely on diffusion of small molecules through the encapsulating material (shell), into the IL core, and thus the composition of the shell impacts uptake performance. Herein, we report the impact of polymer shell composition on the uptake of the small molecule dye methyl red from water by encapsulated IL. Capsules with core of 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluorosulfonyl)imide ([Hmim][TFSI]) were prepared by interfacial polymerization in emulsions stabilized by graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets; the use of different diamines and diisocyanates gave capsule shells with polyureas that were all aliphatic, aliphatic/aromatic, and aliphatic/polar aprotic. These capsules were then added to aqueous solutions of methyl red at different pH values, and migration of the dye into the capsules was monitored by UV-vis spectroscopy, compared to the capsule shell alone. Regardless of the polymer identity, similar extents of dye uptake were observed (>90% at pH = 2), yet capsules with shells containing polyureas with polar aprotic linkages took longer to reach completion. These studies indicate that small changes in capsule shell composition can lead to different performance in small molecule uptake, giving insight into how to tailor shell composition for specific applications, such as solvent remediation and gas uptake.
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- Katelynn Edgehouse
- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
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Challenges and Opportunities in Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage: A Process Systems Engineering Perspective. Comput Chem Eng 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2022.107925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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