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Wu H, Zhang C, Zhang J, Wang C, Chen P, Wang S. Investigating the Mechanism of Diethylenetriamine Pentamethylene Phosphonic Acid as a Depressant for Calcite Flotation of Fluorite. ACS OMEGA 2024; 9:17354-17367. [PMID: 38645314 PMCID: PMC11025071 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c10400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2024] [Revised: 02/18/2024] [Accepted: 03/27/2024] [Indexed: 04/23/2024]
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Fluorite and calcite have been attracting research attention for a long time. This paper reports on an investigation of the use of diethylene triamine pentamethylphosphonic acid (DTPMPA) as a chelating inhibitor. DTPMPA was used as a chelating inhibitor to study the flotation, separation, and adsorption behaviors of fluorite and calcite minerals. The microflotation experiment showed that the maximum separation of fluorite and calcite can be achieved with a DTPMPA dosage of 1.5 × 10-4 mol/L under weakly alkaline conditions (pH = 8). Zeta potential measurement, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy were used to confirm that DTPMPA was adsorbed on the surface of calcite, inhibiting NaOl adsorption. Additionally, density functional theory calculations showed that oxygen in the DTPMPA phosphate group formed the most stable bidentate binuclear adsorption configuration by chelating with calcium on the calcite surface. Through detection analysis and simulation calculations, the results showed that DTPMPA exhibited significantly weaker adsorption on fluorite compared to that on calcite, highlighting its selective inhibition ability on calcite.
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- Haijun Wu
- College
of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Dalian University, Dalian, Liaoning 116622, China
- School
of Mining and Mechanical Engineering, Liupanshui
Normal University, Liupanshui, Guizhou 553004, China
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- School
of Mining and Mechanical Engineering, Liupanshui
Normal University, Liupanshui, Guizhou 553004, China
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- College
of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Dalian University, Dalian, Liaoning 116622, China
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- School
of Mining and Mechanical Engineering, Liupanshui
Normal University, Liupanshui, Guizhou 553004, China
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- School
of Mining and Mechanical Engineering, Liupanshui
Normal University, Liupanshui, Guizhou 553004, China
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- School
of Mining and Mechanical Engineering, Liupanshui
Normal University, Liupanshui, Guizhou 553004, China
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Alizadeh Sahraei A, Azizi D, Mokarizadeh AH, Boffito DC, Larachi F. Emerging Trends of Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modeling in Froth Flotation: A Review. ACS ENGINEERING AU 2023; 3:128-164. [PMID: 37362006 PMCID: PMC10288516 DOI: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.2c00053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2022] [Revised: 04/04/2023] [Accepted: 04/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Froth flotation is the most versatile process in mineral beneficiation, extensively used to concentrate a wide range of minerals. This process comprises mixtures of more or less liberated minerals, water, air, and various chemical reagents, involving a series of intermingled multiphase physical and chemical phenomena in the aqueous environment. Today's main challenge facing the froth flotation process is to gain atomic-level insights into the properties of its inherent phenomena governing the process performance. While it is often challenging to determine these phenomena via trial-and-error experimentations, molecular modeling approaches not only elicit a deeper understanding of froth flotation but can also assist experimental studies in saving time and budget. Thanks to the rapid development of computer science and advances in high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructures, theoretical/computational chemistry has now matured enough to successfully and gainfully apply to tackle the challenges of complex systems. In mineral processing, however, advanced applications of computational chemistry are increasingly gaining ground and demonstrating merit in addressing these challenges. Accordingly, this contribution aims to encourage mineral scientists, especially those interested in rational reagent design, to become familiarized with the necessary concepts of molecular modeling and to apply similar strategies when studying and tailoring properties at the molecular level. This review also strives to deliver the state-of-the-art integration and application of molecular modeling in froth flotation studies to assist either active researchers in this field to disclose new directions for future research or newcomers to the field to initiate innovative works.
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- Abolfazl Alizadeh Sahraei
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Université
Laval, 1065 Avenue de la Médecine, Québec, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, École Polytechnique
de Montréal, 2900 Boulevard Édouard-Montpetit, Montréal H3T 1J4, Canada
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- School
of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, École Polytechnique
de Montréal, 2900 Boulevard Édouard-Montpetit, Montréal H3T 1J4, Canada
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Université
Laval, 1065 Avenue de la Médecine, Québec, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada
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Sun Q, Chen J, Zhao Z, Yang D, Xiao Y, Zhang H, Ma X, Zhong H, Zeng H. Tailored pH-triggered surfactant for stepwise separation of a three-component mineral system. Sep Purif Technol 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2023.123753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2023]
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Cheng S, Li W, Han Y, Sun Y, Gao P, Zhang X. Recent process developments in beneficiation and metallurgy of rare earths: A review. J RARE EARTH 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jre.2023.03.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/31/2023]
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Xu L, Wang Z, Shu K, Wu H, Hu Y. Surface chemistry considerations of gangue dissolved species in the bastnaesite flotation system. FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH 2022; 2:748-756. [PMID: 38933123 PMCID: PMC11197533 DOI: 10.1016/j.fmre.2021.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2021] [Revised: 08/27/2021] [Accepted: 09/13/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Inefficient flotation of bastnaesite remains a challenge in the production of rare earth elements. This study aimed to investigate the dissolution and adsorption behaviour of species that are commonly released into bastnaesite flotation pulp from Ca/Ba-bearing gangue minerals. The influence and corresponding mechanisms on the bastnaesite mineral surface and collectors, namely sodium oleate (NaOL), were evaluated experimentally based on micro-flotation, zeta potentials, in situ attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), and X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analyses. The flotation recovery of bastnaesite significantly decreased from ∼95% to ∼25%, ∼15%, ∼80%, ∼25% when exposed to calcite, fluorite, barite, and mixed dissolved species, respectively. The zeta potential of bastnaesite was pH sensitive, indicating that H+ and OH- determine the surface potential of bastnaesite. Solution chemistry analyses revealed that the presence of the dissolved species differed at various pH values. In situ ATR-FTIR demonstrated the different effects of the dissolved species from calcite, fluorite, and barite on collector adsorption. The former two dissolved species mainly depressed the chemisorption of the NaOL monomers (RCOO‒), whereas calcite also affected the physical adsorption of the oleic acid molecular dimer (RCOOH·RCOO‒). Moreover, the barite dissolved species only affected the physical adsorption of the NaOL species. The results of XPS analysis revealed that dissolved species from these three gangues could pre-adsorbed onto bastnaesite and affected the interaction with the collector. Density functional theory calculations were employed to provide further theoretical insights into the interactions between the dissolved species from calcite, fluorite, and barite and NaOL.
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- Longhua Xu
- Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recycle Ministry of Education, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, Sichuan, China
- State Key Laboratory for Environment-friendly Energy Materials, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, Sichuan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recycle Ministry of Education, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, Sichuan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recycle Ministry of Education, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, Sichuan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recycle Ministry of Education, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, Sichuan, China
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- School of Resources Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410012, Hunan, China
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Chapleski RC, Chowdhury AU, Wanhala AK, Gibson LD, Stamberga DN, Jansone-Popova S, Sacci RL, Meyer HM, Stack AG, Bocharova V, Doughty B, Bryantsev VS. Improving Rare-Earth Mineral Separation with Insights from Molecular Recognition: Functionalized Hydroxamic Acid Adsorption onto Bastnäsite and Calcite. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2022; 38:5439-5453. [PMID: 35443130 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c03422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Enhancing the separation of rare-earth elements (REEs) from gangue materials in mined ores requires an understanding of the fundamental interactions driving the adsorption of collector ligands onto mineral interfaces. In this work, we examine five functionalized hydroxamic acid ligands as potential collectors for the REE-containing bastnäsite mineral in froth flotation using density functional theory calculations and a suite of surface-sensitive analytical spectroscopies. These include vibrational sum frequency generation, attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared, Raman, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopies. Differences in the chemical makeup of these ligands on well-defined bastnäsite and calcite surfaces allow for a systematic relationship connecting the structure to adsorption activity to be framed in the context of interfacial molecular recognition. We show how the intramolecular hydrogen bonding of adsorbed ligands requires the inclusion of explicit water solvent molecules to correctly map energetic and structural trends measured by experiments. We anticipate that the results and insights from this work will motivate and inform the design of improved flotation collectors for REE ores.
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- Robert C Chapleski
- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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Yiyen G, Duck KV, Walker RA. Surfactant Adsorption to Gypsum Surfaces and the Effects on Solubility in Aqueous Solutions. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2022; 38:2804-2810. [PMID: 35220715 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Vibrational sum frequency generation (VSFG) spectroscopy, conductometric titration measurements, and EDX elemental mapping were used to examine surfactant adsorption to the gypsum (010) surface and assess the effects of surfactant adsorption on gypsum solubility in aqueous solutions. Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and dodecyltrimethylammonium chloride (DTAC) were used as anionic and cationic surfactants, respectively. Gypsum/SDS interactions result in an ordered precipitate layer on the gypsum surface after water evaporation; gypsum/DTAC interaction did not show a similar effect, despite exposure of gypsum to equivalent amounts of surfactant. VSFG spectra showed that SDS molecules adsorb with their chains parallel to the gypsum surface; spectra from gypsum surfaces treated with DTAC, however, showed no measurable response, implying that these surfactants form disorganized aggregates with no polar ordering. Vibrational data were supported by independent EDX measurements that show a uniform distribution of SDS across the gypsum surface. In contrast, element-specific EDX images showed that DTAC clustered in tightly localized patches that left most of the gypsum surface exposed. The uniform adsorption of SDS on the gypsum surface suppresses long-term dissolution up to 40% when compared to samples exposed to DTAC. Gypsum samples in DTAC-containing solutions lose approximately the same amount of material to dissolution as samples immersed in pure water.
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Zhang C, Li P, Cao Y, Hao H, Peng W, Teng D, Fan G. Synthesis of sodium oleate hydroxamate and its application as a novel flotation collector on the ilmenite-forsterite separation. Sep Purif Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2021.120283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Selective adsorption of a novel X-shaped surfactant dioctyl di-hydroxamic acid on fluorite surface leading the effective flotation separation of fluorite from calcite and barite. J Mol Liq 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2021.117941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Lu Y, Wu K, Wang S, Cao Z, Ma X, Zhong H. Structural modification of hydroxamic acid collectors to enhance the flotation performance of malachite and associated mechanism. J Mol Liq 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2021.117959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Zou S, Ma X, Wang S, Zhong H, Qin W. Flotation of rhodochrosite fines induced by octyl hydroxamic acid as hydrophobic agglomerates. POWDER TECHNOL 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2021.04.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Zeng Y, Yao X, Liu G, He G, Yu X, He G, Huang Z, Zhang R, Cheng C. Flotation behavior and mechanism of phenylpropenyl hydroxamic acid for the separation of smithsonite and calcite. J Mol Liq 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2021.116893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Falconer RJ, Schuur B, Mittermaier AK. Applications of isothermal titration calorimetry in pure and applied research from 2016 to 2020. J Mol Recognit 2021; 34:e2901. [PMID: 33975380 DOI: 10.1002/jmr.2901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Revised: 04/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/26/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The last 5 years have seen a series of advances in the application of isothermal titration microcalorimetry (ITC) and interpretation of ITC data. ITC has played an invaluable role in understanding multiprotein complex formation including proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACS), and mitochondrial autophagy receptor Nix interaction with LC3 and GABARAP. It has also helped elucidate complex allosteric communication in protein complexes like trp RNA-binding attenuation protein (TRAP) complex. Advances in kinetics analysis have enabled the calculation of kinetic rate constants from pre-existing ITC data sets. Diverse strategies have also been developed to study enzyme kinetics and enzyme-inhibitor interactions. ITC has also been applied to study small molecule solvent and solute interactions involved in extraction, separation, and purification applications including liquid-liquid separation and extractive distillation. Diverse applications of ITC have been developed from the analysis of protein instability at different temperatures, determination of enzyme kinetics in suspensions of living cells to the adsorption of uremic toxins from aqueous streams.
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- Robert J Falconer
- School of Chemical Engineering & Advanced Materials, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
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Sun Q, Ma X, Lu Y, Wang S, Zhong H. Insights into the selective adsorption mechanism of a multifunctional thioether-containing hydroxamic acid on separation of wolframite from fluorite. POWDER TECHNOL 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2020.11.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Arun Y, Daifa M, Domb AJ. Polyhydroxamic acid as an efficient metal chelator and flocculant for wastewater treatment. POLYM ADVAN TECHNOL 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/pat.5135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Yuvaraj Arun
- Institute of Drug Research, School of Pharmacy‐Faculty of Medicine, The Alex Grass center for Drug Design and Synthesis and Center for Cannabis Research The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem Israel
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- Institute of Drug Research, School of Pharmacy‐Faculty of Medicine, The Alex Grass center for Drug Design and Synthesis and Center for Cannabis Research The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem Israel
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- Institute of Drug Research, School of Pharmacy‐Faculty of Medicine, The Alex Grass center for Drug Design and Synthesis and Center for Cannabis Research The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem Israel
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Investigation on flotation separation of bastnaesite from calcite and barite with a novel surfactant: Octylamino-bis-(butanohydroxamic acid). Sep Purif Technol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2020.117792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Fan H, Tan W, Liu G. 1-Hydroxydodecylidene-1,1-diphosphonic acid flotation of bastnäsite: Performance and mechanism. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2020.125623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Shu K, Xu L, Wu H, Peng L, Xu Y, Luo L, Yang J, Tang Z. In situ adsorption of mixed collectors BHA/DDA in spodumene-feldspar flotation system. Sep Purif Technol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2020.117325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Chapleski RC, Chowdhury AU, Wanhala AK, Bocharova V, Roy S, Keller PC, Everly D, Jansone-Popova S, Kisliuk A, Sacci RL, Stack AG, Anderson CG, Doughty B, Bryantsev VS. A Molecular-Scale Approach to Rare-Earth Beneficiation: Thinking Small to Avoid Large Losses. iScience 2020; 23:101435. [PMID: 32827853 PMCID: PMC7452217 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2020] [Revised: 06/26/2020] [Accepted: 07/31/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Separating rare-earth-element-rich minerals from unwanted gangue in mined ores relies on selective binding of collector molecules at the interface to facilitate froth flotation. Salicylhydroxamic acid (SHA) exhibits enhanced selectivity for bastnäsite over calcite in microflotation experiments. Through a multifaceted approach, leveraging density functional theory calculations, and advanced spectroscopic methods, we provide molecular-level mechanistic insight to this selectivity. The hydroxamic acid moiety introduces strong interactions at metal-atom surface sites and hinders subsurface-cation stabilization at vacancy-defect sites, in calcite especially. Resulting from hydrogen-bond-induced interactions, SHA lies flat on the bastnäsite surface and shows a tendency for multilayer formation at high coverages. In this conformation, SHA complexation with bastnäsite metal ions is stabilized, leading to advanced flotation performance. In contrast, SHA lies perpendicular to the calcite surface due to a difference in cationic spacing. We anticipate that these insights will motivate rational design and selection of future collector molecules for enhanced ore beneficiation.
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- Robert C. Chapleski
- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN 27831, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN 27831, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN 27831, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN 27831, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN 27831, USA
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- Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA
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- Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN 27831, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN 27831, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN 27831, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN 27831, USA
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- Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN 27831, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN 27831, USA
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Flotation separation of bastnaesite from calcite using novel octylmalon dihydroxamic acid as collector. J Mol Liq 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2020.113484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Shu K, Xu L, Wu H, Xu Y, Luo L, Yang J, Tang Z, Wang Z. In Situ Adsorption of Mixed Anionic/Cationic Collectors in a Spodumene-Feldspar Flotation System: Implications for Collector Design. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2020; 36:8086-8099. [PMID: 32559106 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c00795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Herein, we investigated the effects of mixed collectors with varying alkyl chain lengths and ligand types on the hydrophobicity of the spodumene-feldspar flotation system. Various collector-mineral interactions were compared using in situ attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy with two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy (2D-COS), in situ microcalorimetry, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The highest flotation separation performance can be achieved at a molar ratio of 6:1 and pH 8-9. The in situ microcalorimetry results revealed that the difference in the adsorption reaction heat of the mixed collector is larger than that of the single anionic collector. Moreover, the inconformity between the magnitude of adsorption reaction heat and the results observed for flotation recovery indicates that the heat of the reaction presumably involves the adsorption configurations of the collectors and the amounts adsorbed. In in situ ATR-FTIR with 2D-COS, it can be observed that octanohydroxamic acid/dodecylamine (OHA/DDA) is adsorbed much more intensely onto feldspar than onto spodumene due to the availability of more space on feldspar for the subsequent sorption of DDA after the prior bidentate chemisorption of OHA under alkaline conditions, whereas the sodium oleate (NaOL)/DDA adsorption sequence at pH 4-5 was the reverse of that at pH 8-9. Lastly, XPS was employed to provide further supplemental evidence for the bonding between these two minerals and single anionic/mixed collectors at the optimal pH of 8-9. In this study, the powerful in situ detection technologies can establish a new platform for exploring the underlying mechanism of new reagents at the solid-liquid interface. Moreover, the in-depth understanding related to the adsorption behavior of the mixed collector is beneficial for facilitating the selection and design of efficient and environmentally friendly flotation collectors with improved selectivity.
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- Kaiqian Shu
- Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recycle Ministry of Education, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, Sichuan, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recycle Ministry of Education, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, Sichuan, P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory for Environment-friendly Energy Materials, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, Sichuan, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recycle Ministry of Education, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, Sichuan, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recycle Ministry of Education, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, Sichuan, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recycle Ministry of Education, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, Sichuan, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Environment-friendly Energy Materials, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, Sichuan, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Environment-friendly Energy Materials, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, Sichuan, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recycle Ministry of Education, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, Sichuan, P. R. China
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Chowdhury AU, Lin L, Doughty B. Hydrogen-Bond-Driven Chemical Separations: Elucidating the Interfacial Steps of Self-Assembly in Solvent Extraction. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:32119-32130. [PMID: 32551500 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c06176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Chemical separations, particularly liquid extractions, are pervasive in academic and industrial laboratories, yet a mechanistic understanding of the events governing their function are obscured by interfacial phenomena that are notoriously difficult to measure. In this work, we investigate the fundamental steps of ligand self-assembly as driven by changes in the interfacial H-bonding network using vibrational sum frequency generation. Our results show how the bulk pH modulates the interfacial structure of extractants at the buried oil/aqueous interface via the formation of unique H-bonding networks that order and bridge ligands to produce self-assembled aggregates. These extended H-bonded structures are key to the subsequent extraction of Co2+ from the aqueous phase in promoting micelle formation and subsequent ejection of the said micelle into the oil phase. The combination of static and time-resolved measurements reveals the events underlying complexities of liquid extractions at high [Co2+]:[ligand] ratios by showing an evolution of interfacially assembled structures that are readily tuned on a chemical basis by altering the compositions of the aqueous phase. The results of this work point to new principles to design-applied separations through the manipulation of surface charge, electrostatic screening, and the associated H-bonding networks that arise at the interface to facilitate organization and subsequent extraction.
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- Azhad U Chowdhury
- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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Qi J, Liu G, Dong Y. Probing the hydrophobic mechanism of N-[(3-hydroxyamino)-propoxy]-N-octyl dithiocarbamate toward bastnaesite flotation by in situ AFM, FTIR and XPS. J Colloid Interface Sci 2020; 572:179-189. [PMID: 32240791 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2020.03.080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2019] [Revised: 03/16/2020] [Accepted: 03/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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HYPOTHESIS Both hydroxamate and dithiocarbamate groups exhibit a unique bonding characteristic toward rare earth ions. A hydroxamic acid surfactant containing a dithiocarbamate group should possess a specific affinity to hydrophobize bastnaesite [(Ce, La)CO3F] flotation. EXPERIMENTS N-[(3-hydroxyamino)-propoxy]-N-octyl dithiocarbamate (OAHD) was synthesized, and its flotation mechanism toward bastnaesite was investigated by in situ AFM, FTIR, XPS, micro-flotation and contact angle. FINDINGS In situ AFM clearly observed that OAHD aggregated on bastnaesite surface, which improved the contact angle and surface hydrophobicity of bastnaesite. FTIR spectra and XPS recommended that OAHD's dithiocarbamate and hydroxamate groups co-anchored on bastnaesite surface through strong chemisorption, which strengthened the bonding affinity of bastnaesite toward OAHD. UV spectra showed that both dithiocarbamate and hydroxamate groups exhibited weak affinity toward Ca2+ ions, which benefited OAHD's selective flotation separation of bastnaesite from calcite. The co-adsorption and special hydrophobic structure improved OAHD's flotation performance. As a result, OAHD returned higher flotation selectivity for bastnaesite than OHA (n-octyl hydroxamic acid) which chemisorbed on bastnaesite surface only through the hydroxamate group and used the heptyl as hydrophobic group.
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- Jing Qi
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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Sutton JE, Roy S, Chowdhury AU, Wu L, Wanhala AK, De Silva N, Jansone-Popova S, Hay BP, Cheshire MC, Windus TL, Stack AG, Navrotsky A, Moyer BA, Doughty B, Bryantsev VS. Molecular Recognition at Mineral Interfaces: Implications for the Beneficiation of Rare Earth Ores. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:16327-16341. [PMID: 32180402 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b22902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Ce-bastnäsite is the single largest mineral source for light rare-earth elements. In view of the growing industrial importance of rare-earth minerals, it is critical to develop more efficient methods for separating the valuable rare-earth-containing minerals from the surrounding gangue. In this work, we employ a combination of periodic density functional theory (DFT) and molecular mechanics (MM) calculations together with the de novo molecular design program HostDesigner to identify bis-phosphinate ligands that preferentially bind to the (100) Ce-bastnäsite surface rather than the (104) calcite surface. DFT calculations for a simple phosphinate ligand were employed to qualitatively understand key behaviors involved in ligand-metal, ligand-solvent, and solvent-metal interactions. These insights were then used to guide the search for flexible, rigid, and semirigid hydrocarbon linkers to identify candidate bis-phosphinate ligands with the potential to bind preferentially to Ce-bastnäsite. Among the five most promising bis-phosphinate ligands suggested by theoretical studies, three ligands were synthesized and their adsorption characteristics to bastnäsite (100) interfaces were characterized using vibrational sum-frequency (vSFG) spectroscopy, attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy, and isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). The efficacy of the selective interfacial molecular binding was demonstrated by identifying a bis-phosphinate ligand capable of providing an overall higher surface coverage of alkyl groups relative to a monophosphinate ligand. The results highlight the interplay between adsorption binding strength and maximum surface coverage in determining ligand efficiency to render the mineral surface hydrophobic. DFT calculations further indicate that all tested ligands have higher affinity for Ce-bastnäsite than for calcite. This is consistent with the ITC data showing stronger adsorption enthalpy to bastnäsite than to calcite, making these ligands promising candidates for selective flotation of Ce-bastnäsite.
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- Jonathan E Sutton
- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6119, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6119, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6119, United States
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- Peter A. Rock Thermochemistry Laboratory and NEAT ORU, University of California Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6119, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3111, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6119, United States
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- Supramolecular Design Institute, 127 Chestnut Hill Rd., Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830-7185, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6119, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3111, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6119, United States
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- Peter A. Rock Thermochemistry Laboratory and NEAT ORU, University of California Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6119, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6119, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6119, United States
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Reusable hydroxamate immobilized silica adsorbent for dispersive solid phase extraction and separation of rare earth metal ions. Sep Purif Technol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2019.115934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Chowdhury AU, Taylor GJ, Bocharova V, Sacci RL, Luo Y, McClintic WT, Ma YZ, Sarles SA, Hong K, Collier CP, Doughty B. Insight into the Mechanisms Driving the Self-Assembly of Functional Interfaces: Moving from Lipids to Charged Amphiphilic Oligomers. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 142:290-299. [PMID: 31801348 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b10536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Polymer-stabilized liquid/liquid interfaces are an important and growing class of bioinspired materials that combine the structural and functional capabilities of advanced synthetic materials with naturally evolved biophysical systems. These platforms have the potential to serve as selective membranes for chemical separations and molecular sequencers and to even mimic neuromorphic computing elements. Despite the diversity in function, basic insight into the assembly of well-defined amphiphilic polymers to form functional structures remains elusive, which hinders the continued development of these technologies. In this work, we provide new mechanistic insight into the assembly of an amphiphilic polymer-stabilized oil/aqueous interface, in which the headgroups consist of positively charged methylimidazolium ionic liquids, and the tails are short, monodisperse oligodimethylsiloxanes covalently attached to the headgroups. We demonstrate using vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy and pendant drop tensiometery that the composition of the bulk aqueous phase, particularly the ionic strength, dictates the kinetics and structures of the amphiphiles in the organic phase as they decorate the interface. These results show that H-bonding and electrostatic interactions taking place in the aqueous phase bias the grafted oligomer conformations that are adopted in the neighboring oil phase. The kinetics of self-assembly were ionic strength dependent and found to be surprisingly slow, being composed of distinct regimes where molecules adsorb and reorient on relatively fast time scales, but where conformational sampling and frustrated packing takes place over longer time scales. These results set the stage for understanding related chemical phenomena of bioinspired materials in diverse technological and fundamental scientific fields and provide a solid physical foundation on which to design new functional interfaces.
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