Ultramicroporous carbon with extremely narrow pore distribution and very high nitrogen doping for efficient methane mixture gases upgrading
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ArticleKAUST Department
Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Research CenterPhysical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2017-06-24Online Publication Date
2017-06-24Print Publication Date
2017-10Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/625639
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It is notably challenging to fabricate heavily heteroatom-doped porous carbonaceous materials with narrow ultramicropore size distributions for highly effective mixed-gas separation. In this study, new carbon-based materials with narrow ultramicropore size (<7 Å) distributions (>95%) and high N doping contents (>10 at%) are fabricated through the pyrolysis of a perchloro-substituted porous covalent triazine-based framework (ClCTF). In particular, the sample prepared at 650 °C (ClCTF-1-650) possesses the highest ultramicropores content (98%) and large N content (12 at%) and demonstrates a very high CH and CO capacity, as well as a low N uptake under ambient conditions. The extraordinarily high CH/N and CO/N selectivities correlate with both the ideal adsorption solution theory (IAST) method and performed dynamic separation experiments (breakthrough experiments). The results reported in this study far exceed the CH/N and CO/N selectivities of previously reported carbon-based adsorbents including various nitrogen-doped ones. These results are believed to be associated with the unusually high N content, as well as the suitably narrow ultramicropore size distribution. This report introduces a new pathway to design porous absorbents with precisely controlled ultramicropores for gas separation.Citation
Yao KX, Chen Y, Lu Y, Zhao Y, Ding Y (2017) Ultramicroporous carbon with extremely narrow pore distribution and very high nitrogen doping for efficient methane mixture gases upgrading. Carbon 122: 258–265. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2017.06.073.Sponsors
This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City (16JCYBJC17000) and the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (20133201120004). Y.F.Z. acknowledges support from “Youth Thousand Talents Program” of Tianjin City.Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
CarbonAdditional Links
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0008622317306504ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.carbon.2017.06.073