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Abstract
The pore structure of mesoporous silica is crucial to its application as a substrate for CO2 capture sorbents. In this work, the synthesis of resin-templated silica, a new class of hierarchically meso-/macroporous silica for fabrication of CO2 capture sorbents, was reported. Unlike the conventional acid-catalyzed synthesis of mesoporous silica using self-assembled surfactant or block copolymer templates, the resin-templated silica is derived from porous ion-exchange resin templates using a catalyst-free method that involves three simple steps of silane soaking, moisture exposure, and air calcination. The resin-templated silica reproduced the spherical shape of the porous ion-exchange resin template. It was also found that pores in resin templates were crucial to creating mesoporosity in resin-templated silica. The resin-templated silica has simultaneous attractive surface area and pore volume, which were both substantially higher than those of the ion-exchange resin template. Impregnation of the mesopores and macropores by polymeric amine provided novel amine-oxide sorbents for CO2 capture, that is, resin-templated sorbents. The resin-templated sorbents impregnated using a 15 wt % polyethylenimine (PEI)/methanol solution showed competitive direct air capture (at 400 ppm) performance with a CO2 sorption capacity of 2.1 mmol of CO2/g of SiO2 and amine efficiency of 0.11 mol of CO2/mol of N at an amine loading of 0.83 g of PEI/g of SiO2.
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ndustrial & Engineering Chemistry, with variations in title and format, has been published since 1909 by the American Chemical Society. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research is a weekly publication that reports industrial and academic research in the broad fields of applied chemistry and chemical engineering with special focus on fundamentals, processes, and products.