First synthesis of poly(furfuryl) alcohol precursor-based porous carbon beads as an efficient adsorbent for volatile organic compounds

Pophali, Amol; Lee, Kyung-Min; Zhang, Linxi; Chuang, Ya-Chen; Ehm, Lars; Cuiffo, Michael; Halada, Gary P.; Rafailovich, Miriam; Verma, Nishith; Kim, Tae Jin

doi:10.1016/j.cej.2019.05.029

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“…Polymers with long hydrocarbon chains are commonly used as precursors in carbon fiber synthesis. Several polymers, including poly(acrylonitrile), PAN, [ 4 ], poly(furfuryl alcohol) [ 5 ], poly(vinylidene fluoride), PVDF, [ 6 ], poly(vinyl alcohol) [ 7 ], poly(amic acid), PAA, [ 8 ], poly(p-xylene tetrahydrothiophenium chloride),PXTC, [ 9 ], poly(vinylidene chloride),PVDC, [ 6 ], and phenolic resin [ 10 ], resulted in over 50% carbon yield when synthesized with acrylonitrile in cyanide acid (HCN) [ 11 ]. With high carbon content, up to 54.5%, for polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), this polymer is considered appropriate as a precursor, and, moreover, it has high solubility in water, it is non-toxic, and acts as a reduction agent [ 12 , 13 , 14 ].…”

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Carbon-Nano Fibers Yield Improvement with Iodinated Electrospun PVA/Silver Nanoparticle as Precursor via One-Step Synthesis at Low Temperature

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High temperature is required in carbon fiber synthesis in the carbonization step. However, direct high-temperature heating without the presence of additive materials would affect the yield and structure of carbon fibers produced. Thus, this study aims to synthesize carbon fibers from poly-vinyl alcohol (PVA), as the precursor and reducing agent, using silver nanoparticles (SNP) from silver nitrate (AgNO3) as additives. The pre-treatment of PVA was performed in three steps, i.e., mixing PVA/AgNO3, electrospinning, and iodination. The interaction of PVA and AgNO3 was assessed by FTIR, and SEM was used to characterize the electro-spun fibers prior and after iodination; Raman spectrophotometer was carried out to confirm the yield of carbon fibers. There was reduction in oxygen groups (3000–3800 cm−1) and emergence of -C=O (1100 cm−1) and -C=C- (1627 cm−1) functional groups, indicating formation of carbon layers. Based on the DT/GA results, the silver nanoparticles reduce the need of high temperature with optimum carbonization at 350°C and lead to the formation of more regular graphene layers. Graphene layers with a size distribution of 0.438 nm and well-organized structures were successfully formed, and the Raman shifting showed higher intensities of G and G’ bands in the presence of Ag. Based on DT/GA results, the yield of carbon fibers with iodinated PVA fibers and SNP as additive had higher rates around 800 µg/min, reaching 33% at 500°C. Thus, it is demonstrated that iodinated PVA/AgNO3 samples can significantly improve carbon fiber yield at low temperatures.

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Carbon-Nano Fibers Yield Improvement with Iodinated Electrospun PVA/Silver Nanoparticle as Precursor via One-Step Synthesis at Low Temperature

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“…[13][14][15][16] Moreover, it has been exploited for the preparation of nanostructured carbon materials and their subsequent use for the production of molecular sieves, membranes, catalysts, electrodes, and capacitors. [17][18][19][20][21] This aforementioned vast area of applications and the renewable nature of PFA constantly motivate researchers to develop sustainable methods. Generally, PFA has been synthesized via the polymerization of FA in acidic medium using various acid catalysts including organic acids such as maleic anhydride, 22 oxalic acid, 23 and p-toluene sulfonic acid, 24,25 mineral acids such as Maghnite, 26 and inorganic acids such as sulfuric acid, 11,27 hydrochloric acid, 28,29 and Lewis acids.…”

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Catalyst-free synthesis of poly(furfuryl alcohol) using deep eutectic solvents

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“…Numerous VOCs adsorbents have emerged, for instance, adsorption, condensation, incineration, biological degradation and catalysis oxidation et al [6,7]. Among many new VOCs adsorbents, porous carbon materials have important potential due to the large surface areas, incombustible nature, high adsorption capacities and excellent recyclability [8][9][10]. Notably, water vapor is ubiquitous in VOCs steam, and adsorbents have good adsorption properties to water vapor in competition with VOCs, which seriously affect the performance of the adsorbent [11].…”

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Engineering hydrophobic carbon sponge from metal−organic complexes@melamine foam composite for advanced volatile organic compounds adsorption

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et al. 2021

J Mater Sci

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In this work, highly hydrophobic carbon sponges with large specific surface area were successfully prepared (denoted as HHCS-1, HHCS-2 and HHCS-3). By simply increasing temperature and decreasing heating rate, the carbon sponge showed unique sphere structures at the points of each connection. Moreover, the unique sphere structure changes from no obvious fold to obvious fold. HHCS-3 with the largest surface area of 2926.2 m 2 g -1 exhibited superior adsorption performance for methanol, acetone and toluene, and the largest saturated adsorption capacity reached as high as 172, 365 and 429 mg g -1 . The ultralow water vapor absorption rate indicates that HHCSs have excellent hydrophobicity and water vapor uptakes are only 7.62%, 6.71% and 6.25% at the relative humidity of 50%. When water vapor was introduced into toluene gas (RH = 50%), the toluene-saturated adsorption capacities are only reduced by 7.2-8.6% compared with under dry conditions. The adsorption capacity of toluene on the HHCSs is higher than that of methanol and acetone. Kinetic adsorption models show that the adsorption of methanol, acetone and toluene onto HHCSs mainly depends on surface adsorption.

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First synthesis of poly(furfuryl) alcohol precursor-based porous carbon beads as an efficient adsorbent for volatile organic compounds

Cited by 32 publications

References 66 publications

Carbon-Nano Fibers Yield Improvement with Iodinated Electrospun PVA/Silver Nanoparticle as Precursor via One-Step Synthesis at Low Temperature

Carbon-Nano Fibers Yield Improvement with Iodinated Electrospun PVA/Silver Nanoparticle as Precursor via One-Step Synthesis at Low Temperature

Catalyst-free synthesis of poly(furfuryl alcohol) using deep eutectic solvents

Engineering hydrophobic carbon sponge from metal−organic complexes@melamine foam composite for advanced volatile organic compounds adsorption

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