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Combined CO2-philicity and Ordered Meso-porosity for Highly Selective CO2 Capture at High Temperatures Ji Hoon Lee, Hyeon Jeong Lee, Soo Yeon Lim, Byung Gon Kim, and Jang Wook Choi J. Am. Chem. Soc., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b03579 • Publication Date (Web): 22 May 2015 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on May 26, 2015
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Combined CO2-philicity and Ordered Meso-porosity for Highly Selective CO2 Capture at High Temperatures Ji Hoon Lee, Hyeon Jeong Lee, Soo Yeon Lim, Byung Gon Kim, and Jang Wook Choi* Graduate School of Energy, Environment, Water, and Sustainability (EEWS), Saudi Aramco-KAIST CO2 Management Center, and Center for Nature-inspired Technology (CNiT) in KAIST Institute NanoCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehakro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea KEYWORDS: Carbon dioxide (CO2) capture, CO2-Philicity, Melamine resin, Nitrogen content, Ordered mesoporosity, Pore size effect
ABSTRACT: Various dry sorbents have been lately introduced as promising media to capture carbon dioxide (CO2). However, it is still desirable to further improve their performance in diverse aspects, and high temperature selectivity of CO2 over other gases is clearly one of them. Here, we report a co-assembly approach to turn nonporous melamine resin to a highly ordered mesoporous polymeric network (space group: Im-3m) containing high nitrogen content (~18 at%). This mesoporous network shows anomalously increasing CO2/N2 selectivity with temperature rise, with the selectivity at 323 K reaching 117 (Henry method). This selectivity behavior is attributed to a combined effect of the high nitrogen content allowing for high binding affinity with CO2 and well-defined meso-pores (2.5~2.9 nm) accelerating release of N2 with temperature rise. The given orthogonal approach suggests a new direction in designing dry sorbents with excellent selectivities at high temperatures.
1. Introduction The ever-increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) emission from burning fossil fuels has been considered the main origin of various recent environment and energy issues.1, 2 In an effort to overcome this grand challenge, a global integrated measure, namely CO2 capture and sequestration (CCS), has been launched with drawing a great deal of attention and regarded as one of the viable solutions.3-5 In the area of CO2 capture, various kinds of dry sorbents510 have been lately investigated as alternatives to the current commercial technology using aqueous ethanolic amines3, 4 because the commercial technology suffers from intrinsic drawbacks represented by high energy penalty for regeneration and severe corrosion. In spite of the considerable progress so far, it is desirable to further improve performance in key aspects,7 such as total CO2 uptake, CO2 selectivity over other gases especially nitrogen (N2), and uptake retention upon temperature rise. While the performance of dry sorbents is highly dependent on their various material parameters including specific surface area,11, 12 functional group,13-18 and element,19-22 it was recently revealed18-20, 22 that high nitrogen (N)-content can result in high uptake and selectivity simultaneously. In particular, the high selectivity was recently explained by a new concept, so-called N2-phobicity.18 In terms of taking advantage of high N-content, melamine (2,4,6-triamino-1,3,5-triazine) is one of the most ideal moieties for the sorbent building block because of its rich nitrogen content reaching twice as large as carbon. Mel-
amine has additional advantages of low cost and long industrial history.23-25 Despite the high N-content, the widely adopted form of melamine, melamine resin (MR), synthesized via continuous condensation reaction26-31 between melamine and formaldehyde is not appropriate for CO2 capture because its morphology is nonporous and its specific surface area is therefore pretty low (
