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NANOSCALE ADVANCES
Volume 2, Issue 7, Pages 2758-2767Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9na00720b
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- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program
- Center for Gas Separations Relevant to Clean Energy Technologies, an Energy Frontier Research Center - DOE Office of Science (Basic Energy Sciences) [DE-SC0001015]
- DOE [DE-SC0014664]
- DOE Office of Science (Basic Energy Sciences)
- DOE Office of Science User Facility [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- Robert A. Welch Foundation [A-0030]
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Thermal decomposition of an iron-based MOF was conducted under controlled gas environments to understand the resulting porous carbon structure. Different phases and crystallite sizes of iron oxide are produced based on the specific gas species. In particular, air resulted in iron(iii) oxide, and D2O and CO2 resulted in the mixed valent iron(ii,iii) oxide. Performing the carbonization under non-oxidative or reducing conditions (N-2, He, H-2) resulted in the formation of a mixture of both iron(ii,iii) oxide and iron(iii) oxide. Based on in situ and air-free handling experiments, it was observed that this is partially due to the formation of zero-valent iron metal that is rapidly oxidized when exposed to air. Neutron pair distribution function analysis provided insight into the effect of the gas environment on the local structure of the porous carbon, indicating a noticeable change in local order between the D2O and the N-2 calcined samples.
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