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Gómez-Álvarez P, Noya EG, Lomba E. Structural study of water/alcohol mixtures adsorbed in MFI and MEL porosils. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.120527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Potts DS, Bregante DT, Adams JS, Torres C, Flaherty DW. Influence of solvent structure and hydrogen bonding on catalysis at solid-liquid interfaces. Chem Soc Rev 2021; 50:12308-12337. [PMID: 34569580 DOI: 10.1039/d1cs00539a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Solvent molecules interact with reactive species and alter the rates and selectivities of catalytic reactions by orders of magnitude. Specifically, solvent molecules can modify the free energies of liquid phase and surface species via solvation, participating directly as a reactant or co-catalyst, or competitively binding to active sites. These effects carry consequences for reactions relevant for the conversion of renewable or recyclable feedstocks, the development of distributed chemical manufacturing, and the utilization of renewable energy to drive chemical reactions. First, we describe the quantitative impact of these effects on steady-state catalytic turnover rates through a rate expression derived for a generic catalytic reaction (A → B), which illustrates the functional dependence of rates on each category of solvent interaction. Second, we connect these concepts to recent investigations of the effects of solvents on catalysis to show how interactions between solvent and reactant molecules at solid-liquid interfaces influence catalytic reactions. This discussion demonstrates that the design of effective liquid phase catalytic processes benefits from a clear understanding of these intermolecular interactions and their implications for rates and selectivities.
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- David S Potts
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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Pakzati M, Abedini H, Hamoule T, Shariati A. Equilibrium and dynamic investigation of butanol adsorption from acetone–butanol–ethanol (ABE) model solution using a vine shoot based activated carbon. ADSORPTION 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s10450-021-00345-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Ahn J, Rao G, Vejerano E. Temperature dependence of the gas-particle partitioning of selected VOCs. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE. PROCESSES & IMPACTS 2021; 23:947-955. [PMID: 34100491 DOI: 10.1039/d1em00176k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The gas-particle partitioning coefficients for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are difficult to acquire because discriminating the small mass fraction of the VOCs in the aerosol particle relative to that in the gas phase is challenging. In this paper, we report the temperature dependence of the gas-particle partitioning coefficient (Kp) for n-butanol (n-BuOH) and trichloroethylene (TCE). Using the bench-scale system that we developed, we measured the Kp of surrogate VOCs, n-BuOH, and TCE onto inorganic (ammonium sulfate, Am Sulf) and organic (succinic acid, SA) aerosol particles at a fixed relative humidity (RH) of 35%. At this RH level and temperature range of 278.15-308.15 K, the ln Kp for TCE and n-BuOH partitioning on SA aerosol particles were -27.0 ± 0.70 to -27.9 ± 0.01 and -13.9 ± 0.03 to -17.4 ± 0.17. In contrast, the ln Kp for TCE and n-BuOH partitioning on Am Sulf aerosol particles ranged from -26.4 ± 0.70 to -27.4 ± 0.71 and -14.1 ± 0.03 to -17.1 ± 0.17, respectively. Results showed that TCE fitted well with the classic van't Hoff relationship. The enthalpy of desorption (ΔHdes) for TCE was constant over the temperature range of 278.15 K to 308.15 K, behaving similarly to 1,2-dichlorobenzene. At a similar temperature range, n-BuOH partitioning into both aerosol particles exhibited nonlinear temperature dependence. The minimum ratio of ΔHdes (Am Sulf:SA) for n-BuOH partitioning on each aerosol type was at ∼278.15 K. The magnitude of the entropy ΔSdes for all VOCs was <1 kJ mol-1.
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- Jeonghyeon Ahn
- Center for Environmental Nanoscience and Risk, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of South Carolina, 921 Assembly St., PHRC 501D, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
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- Center for Environmental Nanoscience and Risk, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of South Carolina, 921 Assembly St., PHRC 501D, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
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- Center for Environmental Nanoscience and Risk, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of South Carolina, 921 Assembly St., PHRC 501D, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
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Bates JS, Gounder R. Kinetic effects of molecular clustering and solvation by extended networks in zeolite acid catalysis. Chem Sci 2021; 12:4699-4708. [PMID: 34168752 PMCID: PMC8179612 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc00151e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2021] [Accepted: 02/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Reactions catalyzed within porous inorganic and organic materials and at electrochemical interfaces commonly occur at high coverage and in condensed media, causing turnover rates to depend strongly on interfacial structure and composition, collectively referred to as "solvent effects". Transition state theory treatments define how solvation phenomena enter kinetic rate expressions, and identify two distinct types of solvent effects that originate from molecular clustering and from the solvation of such clusters by extended solvent networks. We review examples from the recent literature that investigate reactions within microporous zeolite catalysts to illustrate these concepts, and provide a critical appraisal of open questions in the field where future research can aid in developing new chemistry and catalyst design principles.
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- Jason S Bates
- Charles D. Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University 480 Stadium Mall Drive West Lafayette IN 47907 USA
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- Charles D. Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University 480 Stadium Mall Drive West Lafayette IN 47907 USA
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COMPUTER RECOGNITION OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES BASED ON THEIR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS. BIOTECHNOLOGIA ACTA 2019. [DOI: 10.15407/biotech12.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Sun Y, DeJaco RF, Siepmann JI. Deep neural network learning of complex binary sorption equilibria from molecular simulation data. Chem Sci 2019; 10:4377-4388. [PMID: 31057764 PMCID: PMC6482883 DOI: 10.1039/c8sc05340e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2018] [Accepted: 03/17/2019] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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We employed deep neural networks (NNs) as an efficient and intelligent surrogate of molecular simulations for complex sorption equilibria using probabilistic modeling. Canonical (N 1 N 2 VT) Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo simulations were performed to model a single-stage equilibrium desorptive drying process for (1,4-butanediol or 1,5-pentanediol)/water and 1,5-pentanediol/ethanol from all-silica MFI zeolite and 1,5-pentanediol/water from all-silica LTA zeolite. A multi-task deep NN was trained on the simulation data to predict equilibrium loadings as a function of thermodynamic state variables. The NN accurately reproduces simulation results and is able to obtain a continuous isotherm function. Its predictions can be therefore utilized to facilitate optimization of desorption conditions, which requires a laborious iterative search if undertaken by simulation alone. Furthermore, it learns information about the binary sorption equilibria as hidden layer representations. This allows for application of transfer learning with limited data by fine-tuning a pretrained NN for a different alkanediol/solvent/zeolite system.
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- Yangzesheng Sun
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center , University of Minnesota , 207 Pleasant Street SE , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455-0431 , USA . ; ; Tel: +1 (612) 624-1844
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center , University of Minnesota , 207 Pleasant Street SE , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455-0431 , USA . ; ; Tel: +1 (612) 624-1844.,Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science , University of Minnesota , 412 Washington Avenue SE , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455-0132 , USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center , University of Minnesota , 207 Pleasant Street SE , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455-0431 , USA . ; ; Tel: +1 (612) 624-1844.,Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science , University of Minnesota , 412 Washington Avenue SE , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455-0132 , USA
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DeJaco RF, Dorneles de Mello M, Nguyen HGT, Jeon MY, Zee RD, Tsapatsis M, Siepmann JI. Vapor- and Liquid-Phase Adsorption of Alcohol and Water in Silicalite-1 Synthesized in Fluoride Media. AIChE J 2019; 66. [PMID: 33281192 DOI: 10.1002/aic.16868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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In this work, batch-adsorption experiments and molecular simulations are employed to probe the adsorption of binary mixtures containing ethanol or a linear alkane-1,n-diol solvated in water or ethanol onto silicate-1. Since the batch-adsorption experiments require an additional relationship to determine the amount of solute (and solvent adsorbed, as only the bulk liquid reservoir can be probed directly, molecular simulations are used to provide a relationship between solute and solvent adsorption for input to the experimental bulk measurements. The combination of bulk experimental measurements and simulated solute-solvent relationship yields solvent and solute loadings that are self-consistent with simulation alone, and allow for an assessment of the various assumptions made in literature. At low solution concentrations, the solute loading calculated is independent of the assumption made. At high concentrations, a negligent choice of assumption can lead to systematic overestimation or underestimation of calculated solute loading.
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- Robert F. DeJaco
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN
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- Facility for Adsorbent Characterization and Testing, Material Measurement Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg MD
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN
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- Facility for Adsorbent Characterization and Testing, Material Measurement Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg MD
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD
- Department of Research and Exploratory Development, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins University Laurel MD
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN
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Jiang N, Shang R, Heijman SGJ, Rietveld LC. High-silica zeolites for adsorption of organic micro-pollutants in water treatment: A review. WATER RESEARCH 2018; 144:145-161. [PMID: 30025266 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2018.07.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 167] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2018] [Revised: 07/05/2018] [Accepted: 07/06/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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High-silica zeolites have been found to be effective adsorbents for the removal of organic micro-pollutants (OMPs) from impaired water, including various pharmaceuticals, personal care products, industrial chemicals, etc. In this review, the properties and fundamentals of high-silica zeolites are summarised. Recent research on mechanisms and efficiencies of OMP adsorption by high-silica zeolites are reviewed to assess the potential opportunities and challenges for the application of high-silica zeolites for OMP adsorption in water treatment. It is concluded that the adsorption capacities are well-related to surface hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity and structural features, e.g. micropore volume and pore size of high-silica zeolites, as well as the properties of OMPs. By using high-silica zeolites, the undesired competitive adsorption of background organic matter (BOM) in natural water could potentially be prevented. In addition, oxidative regeneration could be applied on-site to restore the adsorption capacity of zeolites for OMPs and prevent the toxic residues from re-entering the environment.
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- Nan Jiang
- Department of Water Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5048, 2600, GA Delft, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Water Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5048, 2600, GA Delft, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Water Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5048, 2600, GA Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department of Water Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5048, 2600, GA Delft, The Netherlands
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Gómez-Álvarez P, Noya EG, Lomba E, Valencia S, Pires J. Study of Short-Chain Alcohol and Alcohol-Water Adsorption in MEL and MFI Zeolites. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2018; 34:12739-12750. [PMID: 30296099 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b02326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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In this paper, we present a comparative study of the adsorption behavior of short chain alcohols (pure and in aqueous solution) into silicalite-1 (MFI-type zeolite) and silicalite-2 (MEL-type zeolite). For quite some time, silicalite-1 has been the reference material to address the problem of adsorptive-based separation, mostly for hydrocarbon mixtures. Interestingly, being structurally close to silicalite-1, adsorption studies using silicalite-2 are scarce and to the best of our knowledge, a comparative study of their behavior for alcohol-water mixtures has not been published to date. We have here resorted to molecular simulation techniques to analyze the adsorption and diffusion phenomena in both zeolites at 25 and 50 °C for pure methanol, ethanol, 1-butanol, and water, and for some relevant compositions of alcohol/water mixtures. In addition to the dilute regime in the mixture, our study ranges from intermediate alcohol concentrations to alcohol-rich phases, relevant to alcohol purification processes. Besides, we have performed volumetric and calorimetric measurements of single-component adsorption of alcohols in pure silica MEL zeolite, which were used to validate the model potentials used in the simulations. We observe that the zigzag channels of MFI zeolite are most likely responsible for its somewhat higher affinity for alcohols. This leads to higher adsorption selectivities when compared to those of MEL zeolite. We have also found that the choice of water model strongly conditions water coadsorption into the zeolites and subsequently the predictions of the adsorbent's selectivity in alcohol/water systems. Despite considerable differences for adsorbed pure components, diffusivities of alcohol and water adsorbed from mixtures are relatively similar, as a consequence of the strong hydrogen bonds between hydroxyl groups and water.
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- Paula Gómez-Álvarez
- Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano, CSIC , Serrano 119 , E-28006 Madrid , Spain
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- Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano, CSIC , Serrano 119 , E-28006 Madrid , Spain
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- Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano, CSIC , Serrano 119 , E-28006 Madrid , Spain
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- Instituto de Tecnología Química , Universitat Politècnica de València-CSIC , Avenida de los Naranjos, s/n , Valencia 46022 , Spain
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- CQB and CQE, Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências , Universidade de Lisboa , Ed. C8 , Campo Grande , 1749-016 Lisboa , Portugal
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DeJaco RF, Elyassi B, Dorneles de Mello M, Mittal N, Tsapatsis M, Siepmann JI. Understanding the unique sorption of alkane-α, ω-diols in silicalite-1. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:072331. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5026937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Robert F. DeJaco
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 412 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0132, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 412 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0132, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 412 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0132, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 412 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0132, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 412 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0132, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 412 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0132, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, USA
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Josephson TR, DeJaco RF, Pahari S, Ren L, Guo Q, Tsapatsis M, Siepmann JI, Vlachos DG, Caratzoulas S. Cooperative Catalysis by Surface Lewis Acid/Silanol for Selective Fructose Etherification on Sn-SPP Zeolite. ACS Catal 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b01615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Tyler R. Josephson
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Harker Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Laboratory, University of Delaware, 221 Academy Street, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 139 Smith Hall, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 151 Amundson Hall, 412 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 151 Amundson Hall, 412 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 139 Smith Hall, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 151 Amundson Hall, 412 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 151 Amundson Hall, 412 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 151 Amundson Hall, 412 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 139 Smith Hall, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 151 Amundson Hall, 412 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Harker Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Laboratory, University of Delaware, 221 Academy Street, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Harker Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Laboratory, University of Delaware, 221 Academy Street, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
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Zhou M, Hedlund J. Facile Preparation of Hydrophobic Colloidal MFI and CHA Crystals and Oriented Ultrathin Films. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201806502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Ming Zhou
- Chemical Technology, Department of Civil; Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering; Luleå University of Technology; 97187 Luleå Sweden
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- Chemical Technology, Department of Civil; Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering; Luleå University of Technology; 97187 Luleå Sweden
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Zhou M, Hedlund J. Facile Preparation of Hydrophobic Colloidal MFI and CHA Crystals and Oriented Ultrathin Films. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018; 57:10966-10970. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201806502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2018] [Revised: 06/29/2018] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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- Ming Zhou
- Chemical Technology, Department of Civil; Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering; Luleå University of Technology; 97187 Luleå Sweden
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- Chemical Technology, Department of Civil; Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering; Luleå University of Technology; 97187 Luleå Sweden
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Empty spaces are abhorred by nature, which immediately rushes in to fill the void. Humans have learnt pretty well how to make ordered empty nanocontainers, and to get useful products out of them. When such an order is imparted to molecules, new properties may appear, often yielding advanced applications. This review illustrates how the organized void space inherently present in various materials: zeolites, clathrates, mesoporous silica/organosilica, and metal organic frameworks (MOF), for example, can be exploited to create confined, organized, and self-assembled supramolecular structures of low dimensionality. Features of the confining matrices relevant to organization are presented with special focus on molecular-level aspects. Selected examples of confined supramolecular assemblies - from small molecules to quantum dots or luminescent species - are aimed to show the complexity and potential of this approach. Natural confinement (minerals) and hyperconfinement (high pressure) provide further opportunities to understand and master the atomistic-level interactions governing supramolecular organization under nanospace restrictions.
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- Gloria Tabacchi
- Department of Science and High Technology, University of Insubria, Via Valleggio, 9 I-22100, Como, Italy
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Farzaneh A, DeJaco RF, Ohlin L, Holmgren A, Siepmann JI, Grahn M. Comparative Study of the Effect of Defects on Selective Adsorption of Butanol from Butanol/Water Binary Vapor Mixtures in Silicalite-1 Films. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:8420-8427. [PMID: 28767246 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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A promising route for sustainable 1-butanol (butanol) production is ABE (acetone, butanol, ethanol) fermentation. However, recovery of the products is challenging because of the low concentrations obtained in the aqueous solution, thus hampering large-scale production of biobutanol. Membrane and adsorbent-based technologies using hydrophobic zeolites are interesting alternatives to traditional separation techniques (e.g., distillation) for energy-efficient separation of butanol from aqueous mixtures. To maximize the butanol over water selectivity of the material, it is important to reduce the number of hydrophilic adsorption sites. This can, for instance, be achieved by reducing the density of lattice defect sites where polar silanol groups are found. The density of silanol defects can be reduced by preparing the zeolite at neutral pH instead of using traditional synthesis solutions with high pH. In this work, binary adsorption of butanol and water in two silicalite-1 films was studied using in situ attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy under equal experimental conditions. One of the films was prepared in fluoride medium, whereas the other one was prepared at high pH using traditional synthesis conditions. The amounts of water and butanol adsorbed from binary vapor mixtures of varying composition were determined at 35 and 50 °C, and the corresponding adsorption selectivities were also obtained. Both samples showed very high selectivities (100-23 000) toward butanol under the conditions studied. The sample having low density of defects, in general, showed ca. a factor 10 times higher butanol selectivity than the sample having a higher density of defects at the same experimental conditions. This difference was due to a much lower adsorption of water in the sample with low density of internal defects. Analysis of molecular simulation trajectories provides insights on the local selectivities in the zeolite channel network and at the film surface.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Chemical Technology, Luleå University of Technology , SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden
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- Chemical Technology, Luleå University of Technology , SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Chemical Technology, Luleå University of Technology , SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden
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Van der Perre S, Gelin P, Claessens B, Martin-Calvo A, Cousin Saint Remi J, Duerinck T, Baron GV, Palomino M, Sánchez LY, Valencia S, Shang J, Singh R, Webley PA, Rey F, Denayer JFM. Intensified Biobutanol Recovery by using Zeolites with Complementary Selectivity. CHEMSUSCHEM 2017; 10:2968-2977. [PMID: 28585778 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201700667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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A vapor-phase adsorptive recovery process is proposed as an alternative way to isolate biobutanol from acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation media, offering several advantages compared to liquid phase separation. The effect of water, which is still present in large quantities in the vapor phase, on the adsorption of the organics could be minimized by using hydrophobic zeolites. Shape-selective all-silica zeolites CHA and LTA were prepared and evaluated with single-component isotherms and breakthrough experiments. These zeolites show opposite selectivities; adsorption of ethanol is favorable on all-silica CHA, whereas the LTA topology has a clear preference for butanol. The molecular sieving properties of both zeolites allow easy elimination of acetone from the mixture. The molecular interaction mechanisms are studied by density functional theory (DFT) simulations. The effects of mixture composition, humidity and total pressure of the vapor stream on the selectivity and separation behavior are investigated. Desorption profiles are studied to maximize butanol purity and recovery. The combination of LTA with CHA-type zeolites (Si-CHA or SAPO-34) in sequential adsorption columns with alternating adsorption and desorption steps allows butanol to be recovered in unpreceded purity and yield. A butanol purity of 99.7 mol % could be obtained at nearly complete butanol recovery, demonstrating the effectiveness of this technique for biobutanol separation processes.
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- Stijn Van der Perre
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica, Universitat Politècnica de València, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Avenida de los Naranjos, s/n, Valencia, 46022, Spain
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica, Universitat Politècnica de València, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Avenida de los Naranjos, s/n, Valencia, 46022, Spain
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica, Universitat Politècnica de València, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Avenida de los Naranjos, s/n, Valencia, 46022, Spain
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- School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, SAR, P.R. China
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- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 3010, Australia
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- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 3010, Australia
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica, Universitat Politècnica de València, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Avenida de los Naranjos, s/n, Valencia, 46022, Spain
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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Nguyen H, DeJaco RF, Mittal N, Siepmann JI, Tsapatsis M, Snyder MA, Fan W, Saha B, Vlachos DG. A Review of Biorefinery Separations for Bioproduct Production via Thermocatalytic Processing. Annu Rev Chem Biomol Eng 2017; 8:115-137. [PMID: 28301730 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-060816-101303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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With technological advancement of thermocatalytic processes for valorizing renewable biomass carbon, development of effective separation technologies for selective recovery of bioproducts from complex reaction media and their purification becomes essential. The high thermal sensitivity of biomass intermediates and their low volatility and high reactivity, along with the use of dilute solutions, make the bioproducts separations energy intensive and expensive. Novel separation techniques, including solvent extraction in biphasic systems and reactive adsorption using zeolite and carbon sorbents, membranes, and chromatography, have been developed. In parallel with experimental efforts, multiscale simulations have been reported for predicting solvent selection and adsorption separation. We discuss various separations that are potentially valuable to future biorefineries and the factors controlling separation performance. Particular emphasis is given to current gaps and opportunities for future development.
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- Hannah Nguyen
- Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716; , .,Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716
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- Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716; , .,Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455.,Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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- Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716; , .,Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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- Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716; , .,Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455.,Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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- Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716; , .,Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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- Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716; , .,Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
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- Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716; , .,Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
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- Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716; ,
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- Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716; , .,Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716
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Liang Q, Chai K, Lu K, Xu Z, Li G, Tong Z, Ji H. Theoretical and experimental studies on the separation of cinnamyl acetate and cinnamaldehyde by adsorption onto a β-cyclodextrin polyurethane polymer. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7ra07813g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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CAc and CA were separated using CDPU as adsorbent, and the mechanism was proposed through DFT calculations and experimental analyses.
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- Qinghua Liang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Resource Processing and Process Intensification Technology
- Guangxi University
- Nanning 530004
- PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Resource Processing and Process Intensification Technology
- Guangxi University
- Nanning 530004
- PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Resource Processing and Process Intensification Technology
- Guangxi University
- Nanning 530004
- PR China
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- School of Light Industry and Food Engineering
- Guangxi University
- Nanning 530004
- PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Resource Processing and Process Intensification Technology
- Guangxi University
- Nanning 530004
- PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Resource Processing and Process Intensification Technology
- Guangxi University
- Nanning 530004
- PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Resource Processing and Process Intensification Technology
- Guangxi University
- Nanning 530004
- PR China
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Farzaneh A, Zhou M, Antzutkin ON, Bacsik Z, Hedlund J, Holmgren A, Grahn M. Adsorption of Butanol and Water Vapors in Silicalite-1 Films with a Low Defect Density. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2016; 32:11789-11798. [PMID: 27797215 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b03326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Pure silica zeolites are potentially hydrophobic and have therefore been considered to be interesting candidates for separating alcohols, e.g., 1-butanol, from water. Zeolites are traditionally synthesized at high pH, leading to the formation of intracrystalline defects in the form of silanol defects in the framework. These silanol groups introduce polar adsorption sites into the framework, potentially reducing the adsorption selectivity toward alcohols in alcohol/water mixtures. In contrast, zeolites prepared at neutral pH using the fluoride route contain significantly fewer defects. Such crystals should show a much higher butanol/water selectivity than crystals prepared in traditional hydroxide (OH-) media. Moreover, silanol groups are present at the external surface of the zeolite crystals; therefore, minimizing the external surface of the studied adsorbent is important. In this work, we determine adsorption isotherms of 1-butanol and water in silicalite-1 films prepared in a fluoride (F-) medium using in situ attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy. This film was composed of well intergrown, plate-shaped b-oriented crystals, resulting in a low external area. Single-component adsorption isotherms of 1-butanol and water were determined in the temperature range of 35-80 °C. The 1-butanol isotherms were typical for an adsorbate showing a high affinity for a microporous material and a large increase in the amount adsorbed at low partial pressures of 1-butanol. The Langmuir-Freundlich model was successfully fitted to the 1-butanol isotherms, and the heat of adsorption was determined. Water showed a very low affinity for the adsorbent, and the amounts adsorbed were very similar to previous reports for large silicalite-1 crystals prepared in a fluoride medium. The sample also adsorbed much less water than did a reference silicalite-1(OH-) film containing a high density of internal defects.The results show that silicalite-1 films prepared in a F- medium with a low density of defects and external area are very promising for the selective recovery of 1-butanol from aqueous solutions.
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- Department of Physics, Warwick University , CV4 7AL Coventry, United Kingdom
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- Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University , SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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