• 文献标题:   Effect of Surface Characteristics of Graphene Aerogels and Hydrophilicity of Ionic Liquids on the CO2/CH4 Separation Performance of Ionic Liquid/Reduced Graphene Aerogel Composites
  • 文献类型:   Article, Early Access
  • 作  者:   CAGLAYAN HP, UNAL U, KESKIN S, UZUN A
  • 作者关键词:   graphene aerogel, ionic liquid il, gas separation, porous sorbent, co2/ch4 separation, composite
  • 出版物名称:   ACS APPLIED NANO MATERIALS
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  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsanm.2c05476 EA FEB 2023
  • 出版年:   2023

▎ 摘  要

Two ionic liquids (ILs) having the same cation with different anions offering opposite hydrophilic/hydrophobic characters, 1-n-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium dicyanamide ([BMPyr][DCA]) and 1-n-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium hexafluorophosphate ([BMPyr][PF6]), were impregnated onto two different reduced graphene aerogels (rGAs) prepared by the thermal treatment of GAs at 300 and 500 degrees C to investigate the consequences of the changes in the hydrophilic character of ILs and the reduction temperature of the GAs on the corresponding gas sorption and separation performance of the IL/rGAs. The structural analyses of nanoporous rGAs and IL/rGAs pointed to a change in the quantity of oxygenated functional groups upon thermal treatment and a change in the direct interactions between IL molecules and the host rGA surface upon IL deposition. Single-component CO2 and CH4 sorption measurements were performed for each rGA and IL/rGA composite, and both ideal and mixture CO2/CH4 selectivities were calculated. The samples prepared by reducing the GA at 300 and 500 degrees C yielded ideal CO2/ CH4 selectivities of 3.6 and 18 at 1 mbar and 25 degrees C, respectively. Among IL/rGA composites, the one prepared at 300 degrees C displayed a remarkable CO2/CH4 separation performance when combined with the hydrophobic [BMPyr][PF6], offering an ideal selectivity of 450.9 at 1 mbar and 25 degrees C, whereas the composite prepared with rGA500 yielded a substantially high CO2/CH4 selectivity of 173.5 after the incorporation of the hydrophilic [BMPyr][DCA] at 1 mbar and 25 degrees C. The ideal CO2/CH4 selectivities of [BMPyr][PF6]/ rGA300 and [BMPyr][DCA]/rGA500 surpassed most of the previously reported selectivities of carbon-based materials in the literature. These results demonstrate the broad potential of IL/rGAs in sorption-based gas separations owing to the highly tunable nature of both the structure of IL and the surface characteristics of rGA.