Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 6274-6281Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c00213
Keywords
carbon capture; crown nanopore; graphene; membrane fi ltration; fl ue gas
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [12104394]
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With the growing concerns about global warming, it has become urgent to capture carbon dioxide from various sources. Recent research shows that crown nanopores embedded in graphene can efficiently allow CO2 to pass while blocking other flue gas components.
With growing concerns about global warming, it has become urgent and critical to capture carbon from various emission sources (such as power plants) and even directly from air. Recent advances in materials research permit the design of various efficient approaches for capturing CO2 with high selectivity over other gases. Here, we show that crown nanopores (resembling crown ethers) embedded in graphene can efficaciously allow CO2 to pass and block other flue gas components (such as N2 and O2). We carried out extensive density functional theory-based calculations as well as classical and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations to reveal the energetics and dynamics of gas transport through crown nanopores. Our results highlight that the designed crown nanopores in graphene possess not only an excellent selectivity for CO2 separation/capture but also fast transport (flow) rates, which are ideal for the treatment of flue gas in power plants.
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