Abstract
Carbon-based materials are widely deployed in carbon capture but are only limited to physisorption procedures. Further extending functionalized carbon materials to CO2 chemisorption under low CO2 concentration is highly desirable yet challenging. Herein, a carbon fiber composed of solely ultra-micropores (∼0.45 nm) was deployed as the precursor to avoid the pore blocking effect, which was modified by superbase-derived ionic liquids (ILs) containing strong interaction sites with CO2. By forming a thin coating layer on the surface, the as-afforded surface-functionalized fiber materials demonstrated enhanced CO2 uptake capacity and improved CO2 sorption kinetics, as evaluated by both the volumetric method and thermogravimetric analysis, as well as the calculated energy distribution curves. The achievements made in this work provide guidance on the functionalization of carbon-based materials towards enhanced CO2 chemisorption by forming a thin layer of selected IL coating.
Original language | English |
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Article number | e202200480 |
Journal | ChemNanoMat |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2023 |
Funding
The research was supported financially by the Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy (DE‐SC0022273). H. Luo, R. Paul, and F. Vautard were supported by LDRD program in ORNL (10813) for ionic liquid and fiber synthesis.
Funders | Funder number |
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U.S. Department of Energy | DE‐SC0022273 |
Basic Energy Sciences | |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory | 10813 |
Laboratory Directed Research and Development | |
Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division |
Keywords
- CO chemisorption
- carbon capture
- carbon fiber
- ionic liquid
- surface modification