Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 33, Issue 42, Pages 11203-11216Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02172
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- National Center of Science [DEC-2013/09/B/ST4/03711]
- Poland Operational Program Human Capital [PO KL 4.1.1]
- National Centre for Research and Development [PBS1/A9/13/2012]
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We report an experimental investigation of Structural and adhesive properties for Al-containing mesoporous MCM-41 and MCM41 surfaces. In this work, highly ordered hexagonal mesoporous structures of aluminosilica with two different Si/Al molar ratios equal to 50 and 80 and silica samples were studied; Al was incorporated into the MCM-41 structures using the direct synthesis method, with CTAB as a surfactant. The incorporation of aluminum was, evidenced simultaneously without any change in the hexagonal arrangement of cylindrical mesopores. The porous Materials were examined by techniques such as low-temperature nitrogen sorption, energy-dispersive spectroscopy, and scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Surface properties were determined through x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, potentiometric titration, and static contact angle measurements. It was Shown that an increase in surface acidity leads to an increase in the wetting energy of the surface. To investigate the influence of acidity on the confinement effects, the melting behavior of water in Al-MCM-41 and MCM-41 with the same pore size was determined by using dielectric relaxation spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry methods. We found that the melting-point depression of water in pores is:larger in the functionalized pores than in pure silica pores of the same pore diameter.
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