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Tian Y, Feng X, Wang C, Shang S, Liu H, Huang X, Jiang J, Song Z, Zhang H. Fully Biobased Degradable Vitrimer Foams: Mechanical Robust, Catalyst-Free Self-Healing, and Shape Memory Properties. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024; 16:6523-6532. [PMID: 38275160 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c00267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
Abstract
Thermosetting foams have limited capabilities for recycling, reprocessing, or reshaping. Moreover, most of the foaming agents currently employed in these foams are derived from organic compounds sourced from petrochemicals, thereby posing a significant environmental threat due to heightened pollution. To solve these problems, a fully biobased degradable vitrimer foam (EPC-X) was fabricated using an environmentally friendly all-in-one foaming strategy by cross-linking epoxidized malepimaric anhydride (EMPA), 1,5-diaminopentane (PDA), and 1,5-diaminopentane carbamate (PDAC) as a latent curing-blowing agent. To our delight, the vitrimer foams exhibit excellent mechanical properties (2.86 ± 0.11 MPa compressive strength) owing to their unique rigid rosin backbone and cross-linking networks. The presence of dynamic β-hydroxy ester bonds and the self-catalytic behavior of tertiary amine groups facilitate network rearrangement without requiring additional catalysts, thereby resulting in the development of EPC-X with rapid self-healing and shape memory properties. The self-healing foam could support a weight of 500 g (approximately 562 times its own mass). Moreover, these high-performance vitrimer foams can also be easily degraded in an ethanolamine (EA) or NaOH solution under mild conditions. Such a design strategy offers an alternative approach for developing superior degradable and thermal stimuli-responsive thermosetting foams.
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- Yabing Tian
- National Engineering Laboratory for Biomass Chemical Utilization, Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Nanjing 210042, China
- College of Materials Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
- Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forestry Resource, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Biomass Chemical Utilization, Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Nanjing 210042, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Biomass Chemical Utilization, Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Nanjing 210042, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Biomass Chemical Utilization, Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Nanjing 210042, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Biomass Chemical Utilization, Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Nanjing 210042, China
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- School of Chemical and Chemistry, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng 210042, Jiangsu, China
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- College of Materials Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Biomass Chemical Utilization, Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Nanjing 210042, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Biomass Chemical Utilization, Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Nanjing 210042, China
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Azzouz A, Roy R. Innovative Strategy for Truly Reversible Capture of Polluting Gases-Application to Carbon Dioxide. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:16463. [PMID: 38003653 PMCID: PMC10671383 DOI: 10.3390/ijms242216463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2023] [Revised: 11/12/2023] [Accepted: 11/14/2023] [Indexed: 11/26/2023] Open
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This paper consists of a deep analysis and data comparison of the main strategies undertaken for achieving truly reversible capture of carbon dioxide involving optimized gas uptakes while affording weakest retention strength. So far, most strategies failed because the estimated amount of CO2 produced by equivalent energy was higher than that captured. A more viable and sustainable approach in the present context of a persistent fossil fuel-dependent economy should be based on a judicious compromise between effective CO2 capture with lowest energy for adsorbent regeneration. The most relevant example is that of so-called promising technologies based on amino adsorbents which unavoidably require thermal regeneration. In contrast, OH-functionalized adsorbents barely reach satisfactory CO2 uptakes but act as breathing surfaces affording easy gas release even under ambient conditions or in CO2-free atmospheres. Between these two opposite approaches, there should exist smart approaches to tailor CO2 retention strength even at the expense of the gas uptake. Among these, incorporation of zero-valent metal and/or OH-enriched amines or amine-enriched polyol species are probably the most promising. The main findings provided by the literature are herein deeply and systematically analysed for highlighting the main criteria that allow for designing ideal CO2 adsorbent properties.
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- Abdelkrim Azzouz
- Nanoqam, Department of Chemistry, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, QC H3C 3P8, Canada;
- École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, QC H3C 1K3, Canada
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- Nanoqam, Department of Chemistry, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, QC H3C 3P8, Canada;
- Glycosciences and Nanomaterials Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, QC H3C 3P8, Canada
- Weihai CY Dendrimer Technology Co., Ltd., No. 369-13, Caomiaozi Town, Lingang District, Weihai 264211, China
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Mohan M, Andersen ABA, Mareš J, Jensen ND, Nielsen UG, Vaara J. Unravelling the effect of paramagnetic Ni 2+ on the 13C NMR shift tensor for carbonate in Mg 2-xNi xAl layered double hydroxides by quantum-chemical computations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:24081-24096. [PMID: 37655469 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp03053a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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Structural disorder and low crystallinity render it challenging to characterise the atomic-level structure of layered double hydroxides (LDH). We report a novel multi-step, first-principles computational workflow for the analysis of paramagnetic solid-state NMR of complex inorganic systems such as LDH, which are commonly used as catalysts and energy storage materials. A series of 13CO32--labelled Mg2-xNixAl-LDH, x ranging from 0 (Mg2Al-LDH) to 2 (Ni2Al-LDH), features three distinct eigenvalues δ11, δ22 and δ33 of the experimental 13C chemical shift tensor. The δii correlate directly with the concentration of the paramagnetic Ni2+ and span a range of |δ11 - δ33| ≈ 90 ppm at x = 0, increasing to 950 ppm at x = 2. In contrast, the isotropic shift, δiso(13C), only varies by -14 ppm in the series. Detailed insight is obtained by computing (1) the orbital shielding by periodic density-functional theory involving interlayer water, (2) the long-range pseudocontact contribution of the randomly distributed Ni2+ ions in the cation layers (characterised by an ab initio susceptibility tensor) by a lattice sum, and (3) the close-range hyperfine terms using a full first-principles shielding machinery. A pseudohydrogen-terminated two-layer cluster model is used to compute (3), particularly the contact terms. Due to negative spin density contribution at the 13C site arising from the close-by Ni2+ sites, this step is necessary to reach a semiquantitative agreement with experiment. These findings influence future NMR investigations of the formally closed-shell interlayer species within LDH, such as the anions or water. Furthermore, the workflow is applicable to a variety of complex materials.
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- Megha Mohan
- NMR Research Unit, P.O. Box 3000, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Finland.
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense, Denmark.
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- NMR Research Unit, P.O. Box 3000, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Finland.
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense, Denmark.
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense, Denmark.
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- NMR Research Unit, P.O. Box 3000, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Finland.
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Halawy SA, Osman AI, Nasr M, Rooney DW. Mg-O-F Nanocomposite Catalysts Defend against Global Warming via the Efficient, Dynamic, and Rapid Capture of CO 2 at Different Temperatures under Ambient Pressure. ACS OMEGA 2022; 7:38856-38868. [PMID: 36340116 PMCID: PMC9631741 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.2c04587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The utilization of Mg-O-F prepared from Mg(OH)2 mixed with different wt % of F in the form of (NH4F·HF), calcined at 400 and 500 °C, for efficient capture of CO2 is studied herein in a dynamic mode. Two different temperatures were applied using a slow rate of 20 mL·min-1 (100%) of CO2 passing through each sample for only 1 h. Using the thermogravimetry (TG)-temperature-programed desorption (TPD) technique, the captured amounts of CO2 at 5 °C were determined to be in the range of (39.6-103.9) and (28.9-82.1) mgCO2 ·g-1 for samples of Mg(OH)2 mixed with 20-50% F and calcined at 400 and 500 °C, respectively, whereas, at 30 °C, the capacity of CO2 captured is slightly decreased to be in the range of (32.2-89.4) and (20.9-55.5) mgCO2 ·g-1, respectively. The thermal decomposition of all prepared mixtures herein was examined by TG analysis. The obtained samples calcined at 400 and 500 °C were characterized by X-ray diffraction and surface area and porosity measurements. The total number of surface basic sites and their distribution over all samples was demonstrated using TG- and differential scanning calorimetry-TPD techniques using pyrrole as a probe molecule. Values of (ΔH) enthalpy changes corresponding to the desorption steps of CO2 were calculated for the most active adsorbent in this study, that is, Mg(OH)2 + 20% F, at 400 and 500 °C. This study's findings will inspire the simple preparation and economical design of nanocomposite CO2 sorbents for climate change mitigation under ambient conditions.
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- Samih A. Halawy
- Nanocomposite
Catalysts Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science at
Qena, South Valley University, Qena83523, Egypt
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- Nanocomposite
Catalysts Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science at
Qena, South Valley University, Qena83523, Egypt
- School
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen’s
University Belfast, David
Keir Building, BelfastBT9 5AG, Northern Ireland, U.K.
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- Nanocomposite
Catalysts Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science at
Qena, South Valley University, Qena83523, Egypt
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- School
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen’s
University Belfast, David
Keir Building, BelfastBT9 5AG, Northern Ireland, U.K.
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