Abstract
The synthesis of hierarchically porous Starbon® based materials from initially highly mesoporous Starbons® is reported. Mesoporous starbons® are prepared from three different biopolymers: starch, alginic acid and pectin and each is then activated using three different activating agents: potassium hydroxide, carbon dioxide and oxygen to give a set of hierarchically porous Starbons® which retain the mesopores of the precursor whilst becoming predominantly microporous. The hierarchically porous materials are characterised using nitrogen porosimetry, CHN analysis, ICP-OES, XPS, SEM and TEM imaging. It is shown that the hierarchically porous Starbons® have higher carbon dioxide adsorption capacities than either the mesoporous Starbon® precursors or conventional microporous activated carbon. The materials show selectivities of up to 64 for adsorption of carbon dioxide versus nitrogen and only lose only 3-7% of their carbon dioxide adsorption capacities when the carbon dioxide is saturated with water. The carbon dioxide capture capacity of all 50 Starbon® materials showed a strong and positive linear correlation with the product of the materials ultramicropore surface area and ratio of ultramicropore (0.4-0.7 nm) volume to total pore volume.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1545-1560 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Green Chemistry |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 4 |
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Publication status | Published - 21 Feb 2022 |
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Data supporting Synthesis, Characterisation and Carbon Dioxide Capture Capacities of Hierarchically Porous Starbons
North, M. (Creator), Li, H. (Data Collector), Clark, J. H. (Supervisor) & Wu, X. (Supervisor), University of York, 2022
DOI: 10.15124/f3451289-dcf9-45b2-802e-7175aa073538
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