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A topologically substituted boron nitride hybrid aerogel for highly selective CO2 uptake

Show Author's Information R. Govindan Kutty1,§,  Sivaramapanicker Sreejith2,3,§,  Xianghua Kong4,§,  Haiyong He1,  Hong Wang1,  Junhao Lin5,  Kazu Suenaga5,  Chwee Teck Lim2,3,7,  Yanli Zhao6( ),  Wei Ji4( ),  Zheng Liu1( )
Center for Programmable MaterialsSchool of Materials Science and EngineeringNanyang Technological University50 Nanyang AvenueSingapore639798Singapore
Singapore School of Materials Science and EngineeringNanyang Technological UniversitySingapore639798Singapore
Center for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research CenterNational University of Singapore6 Science Drive 2Singapore117546Singapore
Biomedical Institute for Global Health Research and TechnologyNational University of Singapore14 Medical DriveSingapore117599Singapore
Department of Physics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Functional Materials & Micro-Nano DevicesRenmin University of ChinaBeijing100872China
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)AIST Central 5, Tsukuba, 305-8565Japan
Division of Chemistry and Biological ChemistrySchool of Physical and Mathematical SciencesNanyang Technological University21-Nanyang LinkSingapore637371Singapore
Department of Biomedical EngineeringNational University of SingaporeSingapore117543Singapore

§R. Govindan Kutty, Sivaramapanicker Sreejith and Xianghua Kong contributed equally to this work.

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boron nitride, boron nitride nanotube, aerogel, quadrupole moment, selective CO2 adsorption
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A topologically mediated synthesis of porous boron nitride aerogel has been experimentally and theoretically investigated for carbon dioxide (CO2) uptake. Replacement of the carbon atoms in a precursor aerogel of graphene oxide and carbon nanotubes was achieved using an elemental substitution reaction, to obtain a boron and nitrogen framework. The newly prepared BN aerogel possessed a specific surface area of 716.56 m2/g and exhibited an unprecedented twentyfold increase in CO2 uptake over N2, adsorbing 100 cc/g at 273 K and 80 cc/g in ambient conditions, as verified by adsorption isotherms via the multipoint Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) method. Density functional theory calculations were performed to give hints on the mechanism of such high selectivity of CO2 over N2 adsorption in BN aerogel, which may be due to the interaction between the intrinsic polar nature of B-N bonds and the high quadrupole moment of CO2 over N2.


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A topologically substituted boron nitride hybrid aerogel for highly selective CO2 uptake

Show Author's information R. Govindan Kutty1,§, Sivaramapanicker Sreejith2,3,§, Xianghua Kong4,§, Haiyong He1, Hong Wang1, Junhao Lin5, Kazu Suenaga5, Chwee Teck Lim2,3,7, Yanli Zhao6( ), Wei Ji4( ), Zheng Liu1( )
Center for Programmable MaterialsSchool of Materials Science and EngineeringNanyang Technological University50 Nanyang AvenueSingapore639798Singapore
Singapore School of Materials Science and EngineeringNanyang Technological UniversitySingapore639798Singapore
Center for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research CenterNational University of Singapore6 Science Drive 2Singapore117546Singapore
Biomedical Institute for Global Health Research and TechnologyNational University of Singapore14 Medical DriveSingapore117599Singapore
Department of Physics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Functional Materials & Micro-Nano DevicesRenmin University of ChinaBeijing100872China
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)AIST Central 5, Tsukuba, 305-8565Japan
Division of Chemistry and Biological ChemistrySchool of Physical and Mathematical SciencesNanyang Technological University21-Nanyang LinkSingapore637371Singapore
Department of Biomedical EngineeringNational University of SingaporeSingapore117543Singapore

§R. Govindan Kutty, Sivaramapanicker Sreejith and Xianghua Kong contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

A topologically mediated synthesis of porous boron nitride aerogel has been experimentally and theoretically investigated for carbon dioxide (CO2) uptake. Replacement of the carbon atoms in a precursor aerogel of graphene oxide and carbon nanotubes was achieved using an elemental substitution reaction, to obtain a boron and nitrogen framework. The newly prepared BN aerogel possessed a specific surface area of 716.56 m2/g and exhibited an unprecedented twentyfold increase in CO2 uptake over N2, adsorbing 100 cc/g at 273 K and 80 cc/g in ambient conditions, as verified by adsorption isotherms via the multipoint Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) method. Density functional theory calculations were performed to give hints on the mechanism of such high selectivity of CO2 over N2 adsorption in BN aerogel, which may be due to the interaction between the intrinsic polar nature of B-N bonds and the high quadrupole moment of CO2 over N2.

Keywords: boron nitride, boron nitride nanotube, aerogel, quadrupole moment, selective CO2 adsorption

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Received: 20 January 2018
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MOE2016-T2-1-131 (Tier 2) Singapore was acknowledged. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11274380, 91433103, 11622437, and 61674171), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China and the Research Funds of Renmin University of China (No. 16XNLQ01). Calculations were performed at the physics lab of high-performance computing of Renmin University of China.

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