Elucidating structure-properties relations for the design of highly selective carbon-based HMF sorbents

Won Cheol Yoo; Nafiseh Rajabbeigi; Elizabeth E. Mallon; Michael Tsapatsis; Mark A. Snyder

doi:10.1016/j.micromeso.2013.10.001

Elucidating structure-properties relations for the design of highly selective carbon-based HMF sorbents

Won Cheol Yoo, Nafiseh Rajabbeigi, Elizabeth E. Mallon, Michael Tsapatsis, Mark A. Snyder

Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

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Abstract

5-Hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF) production from fructose dehydration in DMSO with various catalytic systems has shown superior selectivity and high yields. Yet, the subsequent need for energy-intensive separation of HMF from HMF/fructose/DMSO mixtures challenges the practical feasibility of this process. Microporous carbon materials have shown promise as substrates for alternative adsorption-based separations, but the origin of HMF selectivity and adsorption capacity, and thereby structure-properties relations enabling rational design of enhanced sorbents, has remained elusive. Through systematic quantification of the functionality and texture of various commercial (BP2000, Norit1240) and synthetic carbons (three-dimensionally ordered macroporous carbons; mesoporous carbons), we link, for the first time, adsorption capacity and HMF adsorption selectivity to two tunable materials properties of the carbon sorbents: microporosity and oxygenate functionality (i.e., carbon polarity). In the process, we exploit these newly elucidated structure-properties relations for realizing a class of synthetic carbons with sub-micron particulate morphology that achieve more than 60% higher selectivity and more than 20% higher capacity for HMF over fructose as compared to the best performing commercial product, BP2000.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	72-82
Number of pages	11
Journal	Microporous and Mesoporous Materials
Volume	184
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2013.10.001
State	Published - 2014

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This work was supported as part of the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences under award # DE-SC0001004 . The authors thank Prof. A. Stein, Univ. of Minnesota, for use of the FTIR spectrometer. Parts of this work were carried out in the Characterization Facility at the University of Minnesota, a member of the NSF-funded Materials Research Facilities Network ( www.mrfn.org ) via the MRSEC program.

Keywords

Activated carbon
Adsorption
HMF/fructose separation
Microporosity
Polarity

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