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Koli A, Kumar A, Pattanshetti A, Supale A, Garadkar K, Shen J, Shaikh J, Praserthdam S, Motkuri RK, Sabale S. Hierarchical Porous Activated Carbon from Wheat Bran Agro-Waste: Applications in Carbon Dioxide Capture, Dye Removal, Oxygen and Hydrogen Evolution Reactions. Chempluschem 2024; 89:e202300373. [PMID: 37909792 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202300373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2023] [Revised: 10/19/2023] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023]
Abstract
This work reports an efficient method for facile synthesis of hierarchically porous carbon (WB-AC) utilizing wheat bran waste. Obtained carbon showed 2.47 mmol g-1 CO2 capture capacity with good CO2 /N2 selectivity and 27.35 to 29.90 kJ mol-1 isosteric heat of adsorption. Rapid removal of MO dye was observed with a capacity of ~555 mg g-1 . Moreover, WB-AC demonstrated a good OER activity with 0.35 V low overpotential at 5 mA cm-2 and a Tafel slope of 115 mV dec-1 . It also exhibited high electrocatalytic HER activity with 57 mV overpotential at 10 mA cm-2 and a Tafel slope of 82.6 mV dec-1 . The large SSA (757 m2 g-1 ) and total pore volume (0.3696 cm3 g-1 ) result from N2 activation contributing to selective CO2 uptake, high and rapid dye removal capacity and superior electrochemical activity (OER/HER), suggesting the use of WB-AC as cost effective adsorbent and metal free electrocatalyst.
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- Amruta Koli
- Department of Chemistry, Jaysingpur College, Jaysingpur, 416101, India
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- Energy and Environment Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Dr. Patangrao Kadam Mahavidhyalaya College, Sangli, 416416, India
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- College of Environment and Resources, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand
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- Department of Chemical Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand
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- Energy and Environment Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Jaysingpur College, Jaysingpur, 416101, India
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Ma C, Bai J, Hu X, Jiang Z, Wang L. Nitrogen-doped porous carbons from polyacrylonitrile fiber as effective CO 2 adsorbents. J Environ Sci (China) 2023; 125:533-543. [PMID: 36375936 DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2022.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2021] [Revised: 02/25/2022] [Accepted: 03/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
In this report, nitrogen-doped porous carbons were synthesized from polyacrylonitrile fiber by a facile two-step synthesis process i.e. carbonization followed by KOH activation. Activation temperature and KOH/carbon ratio are two parameters to tune the porosity and surface chemical properties of sorbents. The as-obtained sorbents were carefully characterized. Special attention was paid concerning the change of sorbents' morphology with respect to synthesis conditions. Under the activation temperatures of this study, the sorbents can still retain their fibrous structure when the KOH/carbon mass ratio is 1. Further increasing the KOH amount will destroy the original morphology of polyacrylonitrile fiber. CO2 adsorption performance tests show that a sorbent retaining the fibrous shape possesses the highest CO2 uptake of 3.95 mmol/g at 25°C and 1 bar. Comprehensive investigation found that the mutual effect of narrow microporosity and doped N content govern the CO2 adsorption capacity of these adsorbents. Furthermore, these polyacrylonitrile fiber-derived carbons present multiple outstanding CO2 capture properties such as excellent recyclability, high CO2/N2 selectivity, fast adsorption kinetics, suitable heat of adsorption, and good dynamic adsorption capacity. Hence, nitrogen-doped porous carbons with fibrous structure are promising in CO2 capture.
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- Changdan Ma
- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China.
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
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- Key Laboratory of Urban Rail Transit Intelligent Operation and Maintenance Technology and Equipment of Zhejiang Province, College of Engineering, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China.
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Ma C, Bai J, Demir M, Yu Q, Hu X, Jiang W, Wang L. Polyacrylonitrile-derived nitrogen enriched porous carbon fiber with high CO2 capture performance. Sep Purif Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2022.122299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Khosrowshahi MS, Abdol MA, Mashhadimoslem H, Khakpour E, Emrooz HBM, Sadeghzadeh S, Ghaemi A. The role of surface chemistry on CO 2 adsorption in biomass-derived porous carbons by experimental results and molecular dynamics simulations. Sci Rep 2022; 12:8917. [PMID: 35618757 PMCID: PMC9135713 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-12596-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 05/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Biomass-derived porous carbons have been considered one of the most effective adsorbents for CO2 capture, due to their porous structure and high specific surface area. In this study, we successfully synthesized porous carbon from celery biomass and examined the effect of external adsorption parameters including time, temperature, and pressure on CO2 uptake in experimental and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Furthermore, the influence of carbon's surface chemistry (carboxyl and hydroxyl functionalities) and nitrogen type on CO2 capture were investigated utilizing MD simulations. The results showed that pyridinic nitrogen has a greater tendency to adsorb CO2 than graphitic. It was found that the simultaneous presence of these two types of nitrogen has a greater effect on the CO2 sorption than the individual presence of each in the structure. It was also revealed that the addition of carboxyl groups (O=C-OH) to the carbon matrix enhances CO2 capture by about 10%. Additionally, by increasing the simulation time and the size of the simulation box, the average absolute relative error for simulation results of optimal structure declined to 16%, which is an acceptable value and makes the simulation process reliable to predict adsorption capacity under various conditions.
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- Mobin Safarzadeh Khosrowshahi
- Nanotechnology Department, School of Advanced Technologies, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Narmak, Tehran, 16846, Iran
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- Nanotechnology Department, School of Advanced Technologies, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Narmak, Tehran, 16846, Iran
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- School of Chemical, Petroleum and Gas Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Narmak, Tehran, 16846, Iran
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- Nanotechnology Department, School of Advanced Technologies, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Narmak, Tehran, 16846, Iran
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- Nanotechnology Department, School of Advanced Technologies, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Narmak, Tehran, 16846, Iran.
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- Nanotechnology Department, School of Advanced Technologies, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Narmak, Tehran, 16846, Iran.
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- School of Chemical, Petroleum and Gas Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Narmak, Tehran, 16846, Iran.
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Shi R, Liu B, Jiang Y, Xu X, Wang H, Zeng Z, Li L. Porous Carbon Nanofibers with Heteroatoms Doped by Electrospinning Exhibit Excellent Acetone and Carbon Dioxide Adsorption Performance: The Contributions of Pore Structure and Functional Groups. ACS OMEGA 2021; 6:30716-30725. [PMID: 34805699 PMCID: PMC8600650 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c04618] [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: 08/24/2021] [Accepted: 10/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Rich chemical properties and a well-developed pore structure are the key factors of porous materials for gas storage. Herein, rich heteroatom-doped porous carbon nanofibers (U1K2-X) with a large surface area were prepared by electrospinning followed by potassium hydroxide (KOH) activation. Low-cost urea was chosen as the nitrogen source and structural guiding agent. U1K2-X have a high specific surface area (628-2688 m2 g-1), excellent pore volume (0.468-1.571 cm3 g-1), and abundant nitrogen (2.5-12.8 atom %) and oxygen (4.5-12.5 atom %) contents. Acetone and carbon dioxide were used as target adsorbents to evaluate the adsorption properties of U1K2-X by experiments. These U1K2-X exhibit excellent adsorption performance (260.03-955.74 mg g-1, 25 °C, 18 kPa) and multilayer adsorption (the adsorption layer number n > 2) for acetone, which is mainly attributed to the large specific surface area and pore volume. Besides this, the carbon dioxide uptake reached 2.73-3.34 mmol g-1 at 25 °C. This was attributed to the combination of high nitrogen-oxygen contents and microporous structure. Furthermore, U1K2-X show the desirable repeatability. This study provides a new direction for the preparation of heteroatom-doped porous carbon nanofibers, which will be a promising material for gas adsorption.
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- Rui Shi
- School
of Energy Science and Engineering, Central
South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan, China
- School
of Civil Engineering, Inner Mongolia University
of Technology, Hohhot 010051, Inner Mongolia, China
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- School
of Energy Science and Engineering, Central
South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan, China
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- School
of Energy Science and Engineering, Central
South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan, China
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- School
of Energy Science and Engineering, Central
South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan, China
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- School
of Energy Science and Engineering, Central
South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan, China
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- School
of Energy Science and Engineering, Central
South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan, China
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- School
of Energy Science and Engineering, Central
South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan, China
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Shi W, Zhang Q, Liu S, Su S, Chang B, Yang B. Copper ions-assisted inorganic dynamic porogen of graphene-like multiscale microporous carbon nanosheets for effective carbon dioxide capture. J Colloid Interface Sci 2021; 600:670-680. [PMID: 34049022 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.04.146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2021] [Revised: 04/20/2021] [Accepted: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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The superior ultramicroporosity and enriched surface CO2-philic sites are simultaneously required features for high-efficiency carbon-based CO2 adsorbents. Unfortunately, these characteristics are usually incompatible and difficult to integrate into one porous carbon material. Herein, we report a new copper ions (Cu2+)-assisted dynamic porogen to construct hierarchically microporous carbon nanosheets in a large scale with high heterogeneity for solving such issue. Cu2+ can be equably dispersed in precursor by coordination interactions of COO-Cu and Cu-N, which can anchor more N/O-containing species in final product. The reduced cuprous ions (Cu+) in pyrolysis process functions as a dynamic porogen to tailor uniform ultramicropores. Importantly, copper salt extracted in this synthetic procedure allows cyclic utilization, realizing a green and low-cost process. The obtained carbon sheets possess a graphene-like morphology, a high surface area and a high-proportioned multiscale microporosity, especially a high-density ultramicropores of 0.4-0.7 nm and supermicroproes of 0.8-1.5 nm. The maximized synergistic effect of morphology, high density of multi-sized ultramicroporosity and surface high heterogeneity endow the resultant microporous carbon nanosheets with the remarkable CO2 capture property, including a high uptake, a moderate adsorption heat, a good selectivity and superior recyclability.
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- Weiwei Shi
- Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanocomposites and Applications, Institute of Nanostructured Functional Materials, Huanghe Science and Technology College, Zhengzhou, Henan 450006, China
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- Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanocomposites and Applications, Institute of Nanostructured Functional Materials, Huanghe Science and Technology College, Zhengzhou, Henan 450006, China
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- Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanocomposites and Applications, Institute of Nanostructured Functional Materials, Huanghe Science and Technology College, Zhengzhou, Henan 450006, China
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- Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanocomposites and Applications, Institute of Nanostructured Functional Materials, Huanghe Science and Technology College, Zhengzhou, Henan 450006, China
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- Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanocomposites and Applications, Institute of Nanostructured Functional Materials, Huanghe Science and Technology College, Zhengzhou, Henan 450006, China.
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- Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanocomposites and Applications, Institute of Nanostructured Functional Materials, Huanghe Science and Technology College, Zhengzhou, Henan 450006, China.
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Rajendran N, Husain A, Makhseed S. Probing the performance of imide linked micro-porous polymers for enhanced CO 2 gas adsorption applications. NEW J CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d1nj01885j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Microporous polyimides were synthesized and utilized for CO2 gas adsorption.
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- Narendran Rajendran
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, P. O. Box 5969, 13060 Safat, Kuwait
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, P. O. Box 5969, 13060 Safat, Kuwait
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, P. O. Box 5969, 13060 Safat, Kuwait
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