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INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH
Volume 60, Issue 35, Pages 12923-12933Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.1c02248
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [CRD-522391]
- Prima [R16-46-003]
- Awn Nanotech Inc.
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The synthesis of new nanoporous sponge NPS with oxygen and nitrogen functionalities shows high adsorption capacity and stability in multiple cycles. Experimental results demonstrate good agreement between small- and larger-scale water adsorption properties of NPS.
Water scarcity threatens more and more people in the world. Moisture adsorption from the atmosphere represents a promising avenue to provide fresh water. Nanoporous sponges (NPSs), new carbon-based sorbents synthesized from the pyrolysis of resorcinol-formaldehyde resin, can achieve comparable performance to metal organic framework-based systems, but at a significantly lower cost. Oxygen and nitrogen functionalities can be added to the NPS surface, through oxidation and addition of phenanthroline to the initial reagent mixture, respectively. The resulting NPS sorbents have high specific surface areas of 347 to 527 m(2).g(-1) and an average capillary-condensation-compatible pore size of 1.5 nm. When oxidized, the NPS can capture up to 0.28 g of water per gram of adsorbent at a relative pressure of 0.90 (0.14 g.g(-1) at P/P-sat = 0.40) and maintain this adsorption capacity over multiple adsorption/desorption cycles. Scaled-up synthesis of the NPS was performed and tested in an experimental water capture setup, showing good agreement between small- and larger-scale adsorption properties. Water adsorption isotherms fitted with the theoretical model proposed by Do and Do demonstrate that hydroxyl functionalities are of key importance to NPS behavior.
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