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Synthesis of nitrogen-doped carbon with three-dimensional mesostructures for CO2 capture

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The objective of this research was to develop a new CO2 sorbent, three-dimensional nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon (KIT-6-CN). KIT-6-CN was synthesized by nano-replication using carbon tetrachloride and ethylenediamine as precursors, and KIT-6 with cubic Ia3d symmetry as a hard template. The new CO2 sorbent has a relatively high BET surface area of 587 m2/g, a high pore volume of 0.91 cm3/g, and the mesostructures with pore diameters centered at 1.7 and 6.3 nm. The transmission electron microscopy of the KIT-6-CN shows that after removal of silica by NaOH, KIT-6-CN possesses three-dimensional mesoporous structure. CO2 adsorption–desorption isotherms indicate that this nitrogen-doped material has relatively high CO2 capture capacities of 2.11 mmol/g at 25 °C and 3.09 mmol/g at 0 °C, which are superior to those of the pure carbon material (KIT-6-C) with analogous mesostructures. Cyclic CO2 sorption–desorption tests demonstrated the stability of the sorbent. Thus, the new sorbent can potentially be a good candidate for CO2 capture.

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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support to this work from the Science and Technology Department of Zhejiang Province (2013C31049), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21203167, 21106136), as well as from Wyoming Clean Coal Program.

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  1. Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, 321004, People’s Republic of China

    Manli Yao, Lin Wang, Gengshen Hu & Mengfei Luo

  2. College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, 321004, People’s Republic of China

    Xin Hu

  3. Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA

    Maohong Fan

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Yao, M., Wang, L., Hu, X. et al. Synthesis of nitrogen-doped carbon with three-dimensional mesostructures for CO2 capture. J Mater Sci 50, 1221–1227 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-014-8678-1

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