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Abstract
Due to their diverse structure, high porosity, and tunable functionality, Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) hold great potential as materials for diverse applications, including gas separation. Material science researchers are focusing on creating flexible materials that have special properties. Most of the latest research mainly concentrates on fabricating composite materials of MOFs and other functional materials. These MOF-based composites can mitigate the limitations of pure MOFs and may even perform better than the individual components. Here, we present a systematic study on the effect of solvent in synthesising a composite (Cu-BTC@SBA-15) of Cu-trimesate MOF (aka CuBTC) and ordered mesoporous silica SBA-15, showing considerable improvement in selectivity for CO2 adsorption from the flue gas and biogas. The pristine Cu-BTC, SBA-15 and the composites with different content of Cu-BTC were characterized by PXRD, BET, FT-IR, SEM, TEM and TGA techniques. The pure gas adsorption isotherms were measured for CO2, CH4, and N2 gases. Ideal Adsorbed Solution Theory (IAST) is used for the binary selectivity calculations for gas systems such as CO2/CH4 and CO2/N2 in the context of biogas and flue gas separation. The composite exhibited an increase in CO2/CH4 selectivity by 39 % compared to pure Cu-BTC and 85 % compared to pure SBA-15. For the CO2/N2 system, the composite showed 38 % higher selectivity than Cu-BTC. The work has significance in the design of effective MOF-based composites for CO2 separation. Our work might open up a new route to design multifunctional materials for worldwide applications through an adsorptive and or mixed matrix membrane route.
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Microporous and Mesoporous Materials covers novel and significant aspects of porous solids classified as either microporous (pore size up to 2 nm) or mesoporous (pore size 2 to 50 nm). The porosity should have a specific impact on the material properties or application. Typical examples are zeolites and zeolite-like materials, pillared materials, clathrasils and clathrates, carbon molecular sieves, ordered mesoporous materials, organic/inorganic porous hybrid materials, or porous metal oxides. Both natural and synthetic porous materials are within the scope of the journal.
Topics which are particularly of interest include:
All aspects of natural microporous and mesoporous solids
The synthesis of crystalline or amorphous porous materials
The physico-chemical characterization of microporous and mesoporous solids, especially spectroscopic and microscopic
The modification of microporous and mesoporous solids, for example by ion exchange or solid-state reactions
All topics related to diffusion of mobile species in the pores of microporous and mesoporous materials
Adsorption (and other separation techniques) using microporous or mesoporous adsorbents
Catalysis by microporous and mesoporous materials
Host/guest interactions
Theoretical chemistry and modelling of host/guest interactions
All topics related to the application of microporous and mesoporous materials in industrial catalysis, separation technology, environmental protection, electrochemistry, membranes, sensors, optical devices, etc.