Faith Jaffa

Biology 1610
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Structural control of a novel hierarchical porous carbon

material and its absorption properties.

This article talks about porous materials and their absorption properties. A few different
materials mentioned are Organic Porous (SAA), Hierarchically Porous carbon (HPCs), and
Hierarchical porous polymers (HPPs). Organ Porous is a stable chemical structure and are widely
applied in the fields of adsorption, phase separation, catalysis and energy storage. Hierarchically
Porous Carbon is widely used in emerging fields due to its diverse pore structures with high SSA
and excellent chemical stability. Hierarchical Porous Polymers are self-crosslinking functional
monomers. Now that you know the basics, let’s talk about the experiment.
An experiment was held to see what type of reaction these different materials would have. First,
each material was mixed in Nanospheres. Nanospheres are structural polymeric matrix
composite of spherical shapes that vary in size. Next, 20 mL of anhydrous tetrahydrofuran and
1.5 g of trichloro silane to a mixture with drastic stirring. Then, 5.0 mL anhydrous
tetrahydrofuran and 1.2 mL of triethylamine mixture were added under nitrogen and reacted in a
nitrogen/air atmosphere for 8 and 18 h, respectively, and then reacted in air for 18 h. The
resulting solid precipitate (named R-SiO2) was filtered and sequentially washed with ethanol and
tetrahydrofuran and vacuum- dried at 60 °C overnight. From this experiment, it was found that
the prepared material created hyper crosslinking at the time of the reaction.
After that portion of the experiment, they ran an absorption performance test. They kept these
samples in a magnetic field at room temperature and a water bath to see how they would react.
They took photos of this reaction and found that nanospheres were present and the experiment
worked. The untouched sampled created a different reaction proving that what they were testing
for was not found. Based on the absorption porton, HPCs was proven to be a promising
adsorbent with high-efficiency adsorption performance. The effect of carbonization conditions
on the nano- structure and morphology of HPCs was deeply studied. The results show that the
shell-macroporous hollow nanospheres were stacked on each other to form meso/macropores,
forming a three-dimensional nanon- etwork structure. By controlling the carbonization
conditions, the pore structure of HPCs could be effectively customized.