• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.66-68
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• 1996

It has been found that mesoporous structures of MCM-41 and MCM-48 disintegrate readily in distilled water around 370 K, while the structures can be stable in 100%-steam of 1 atmospheric pressure at much higher temperatures around 820 K. Thus, the structure disintegration is thermodynamically more favorable in water than under the steaming condition. X-ray powder diffraction and magic angle spinning 29Si NMR spectroscopy indicate that the disintegration of the mesoporous structures in water occurs due to silicate hydrolysis.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.463-472
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• 1997

A mesoporous molecular sieve, MCM-41, was synthesized and the effent of various initial pH of reaction mixtures on the synthesis and physical properties of MCM-41 was investigated. Adjustment of initial pH for reaction mixtures was made before starting hydrothermal reaction rather than during the reaction. Highly crystalline MCM-41 which shows pore diameters of $30{\AA}$ to $40{\AA}$ and specific surface areas greater than $1000m^2/g$ has been successfully prepared through a single adjustment of initial pH. Results also suggest that the initial pH adjustment has a significant effect on the formation of MCM-41 with a long-range ordered hexagonal array and an excellent thermal stability. Finally, it is speculated that the adjustment of initial pH might accelerate the dissolution of stable polymeric sodium silicate to highly reactive monomeric sodium silicate resulting in well-ordered MCM-41.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.172-178
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• 2006

Mesoporous silicate materials have been used as adsorbents for the removal of heavy metals from water by introducing functional groups such as thiol and amine. In this research, it was investigated whether surfactants used as templating agents in synthetic processes can act as adsorption sites for heavy metals. Three mesoporous silicates-SBA-15, MCM-41, and HMS were synthesized using, respectively, block copolymer, hexadecyltrimethylammoniumbromide (HDTMA), and dodecyamine as surfactants. X-ray diffraction and $N_2$ gas adsorption analysis confirmed that the mesoporous silicates were well prepared and FT-IR spectra resulted in the existence of the surfactants in as-synthesized mesoporous silicates and the removal of surfactants after calcination. The interactions between $Pb^{2+}$ ions and the mesoporous silicate materials with/without surfactants were observed. In adsorption kinetic experiments, it revealed that the calcined mesoporous silicates and the surfactant-loaded SBA-15 almost had no adsorption capacity for $Pb^{2+}$ ions. In contrast, the surfactant-loaded MCM-41 and HMS showed, respectively, the adsorption capacities of 26.60 and 115.16 mg/g which were acquired through the fits of adsorption kinetic data to the pseudo second order kinetic model. The adsorption capacities were comparable to those of other mesoporous adsorbents for heavy metals.

• Proceedings of the Korean Ceranic Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.68.2-68
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• 2003

• Journal of Powder Materials
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.189-194
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• 2016

We report a facile method for preparing KIT-1 mesoporous silicates with two different macroporous structures by dual templating. As a template for macropores, polystyrene (PS) beads are assembled into uniform three dimensional arrays by ice templating, i.e., by growing ice crystals during the freezing process of the particle suspension. Then, the polymeric templates are directly introduced into the precursor-gel solution with cationic surfactants for templating the mesopores, which is followed by hydrothermal crystallization and calcination. Later, by burning out the PS beads and the surfactants, KIT-1 mesoporous silicates with macropores are produced in a powder form. The macroporous structures of the silicates can be controlled by changing the amount of EDTANa4 salt under the same templating conditions using the PS beads and inverse-opal or hollow structures can be obtained. This strategy to prepare mesoporous powders with controllable macrostructures is potentially useful for various applications especially those dealing with bulky molecules such as, catalysis, separation, drug carriers and environmental adsorbents.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.313-317
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• 2010

Li, Zr doped mesoporous silica was synthesized in one pot and investigated for low temperature $CO_2$ adsorption. Herein CTAB and TEOS are used as structural directing agent and silica source respectively. The characteristics of the material was obtained from FT IR, XRD, SEM, TG and BET results. ICP AES results revealed the presence of lithium and zirconium. The material possesses high surface area ($962.22m^2g^{-1}$) with mono dispersed particles of about 2 nm. The maximum $CO_2$ adsorption capacity is 5 wt % (50 mg/g) of $CO_2$/g of sorbent at $25^{\circ}C$, which is regenerable at $200^{\circ}C$. This regeneration temperature of the adsorbent is lower than the reported lithium zirconium silicate powder. Until now, there is no report for the synthesis of Li, Zr doped mesoporous silica. The performance studies illustrate that Li, Zr doped mesoporous silica is tunable, regenerable, recyclable and selective sorbent and hence found to be a promising candidate for $CO_2$ adsorption.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.70-75
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• 1997

A wide range (10 < Si/V) of mesoporous vanadium silicate molecular sieves with the MCM-41 structure have been synthesized using vanadyl sulfate as the source of vanadium and characterized by XRD, 51V MAS NMR and 29Si MAS NMR. The increase of the unit cell parameter and the decrease of Q3/Q4 ratio of 29Si spectra with the vanadium content suggest the incorporation of vanadium in the framework of MCM-41 structure. 51V MAS NMR demonstrates that vanadiums in as-synthesized V-MCM-41 are present in the chemical environment of octahedra and octahedral vanadium is decreased and tetrahedral vanadium is increased inversely with raising the calcination temperature. Though the thermal treatment in rotor of hydrated sample resulted in the change from tetrahedral environment to octahedral one and the steaming and the acid treatment affect to the chemical environment of vanadium, the spectrum similar to originally calcined sample is regenerated after recalcination. This indicates that the vanadium is belong to the framework in a relatively exposed site. The best quality XRD pattern of the product of Si/V=27 may be attributable to heterogeneous nucleation mechanism. V-MCM-41's having the Si/V ratio lower than 20 are completely collapsed after calcination.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.291-298
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• 2012

Carbamoylphosphate (CMPO) [CMPO analogue; 2-(diphenylphosphoryl)-N-(3-(triethoxysilyl)propyl)acetamide]silane, as a functional self-assembled molecules, grafted mesoporous silicates were prepared by simple hydrolysis and condensation reaction. Pore sized tailored mesoporous silicates such as MCM-41, SBA-15, or amorphous silica nanoparticles were adopted as host materials. The surface area of ordered mesoporous silicates was ranged from 680 $m^2/g$ to 1310 $m^2/g$ with different pore diameters that estimated to be ca. 2.3~9.1 nm by BJH method. Among the OMMs host materials, SBA-15(II) has higher loading ratio (~35 wt%) of CMPO derivative than other OMMs. Accessibility to CMPO silane functional groups in the surface of mesoporous silicas was studied by lanthanide ions sorption experiments. All of the CMPO modified OMMs favors the smaller Eu(III) and Nd(III) cations than La(III) for relative larger ionic radius.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.122-126
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• 2018

Mesoporous molecular sieves were prepared by the reaction of $Na_2SiO_3$ and $H_2SiF_6$ using nonionic micelle templates in an aqueous solution. Well-crystalline mesoporous molecular sieves were obtained after several seconds at atmospheric conditions. Powder samples exhibited d-spacing of 3.8-5.1 nm with the sharpness of the d00l peak, showing well-crystalline mesoporous molecular sieves, pore size distributions of 2.5-3.1 nm and large specific surface areas of $290-1,018m^2/g$, depending on types of surfactants. SEM images of samples showed well-divided spherical particles with an uniform size of ${\sim}0.5{\mu}m$ and TEM images demonstrated uniform pores with a worm hole shape.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.452-456
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• 2008

Mesoporous silicate materials have been used as adsorbents due to the advantage of high specific surface area and regular mesopores. In this study, conventional mesoporous silicates (MCM-41, and SBA-15) were utilized as adsorbents for gaseous benzene, one of volatile organic compounds. In the results of the breakthrough curves of gaseous benzene, SBA-15 showed a higher benzene adsorption capacity in adsorption condition of this study. Especially, compared to benzene adsorption of zeolite X, that of SBA-15 was higher by a factor of 2.7. With increasing adsorption temperature, adsorption capacity for benzene of SBA-15 was decreased rapidly. This indicates that benzene adsorbed weakly on SBA-15.