Enhanced CO₂ adsorption properties with bimetallic ZnCe-MOF prepared using a microchannel reactor

Abstract

The use of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as CO₂-gas-capture materials has attracted extensive research attention. In this study, two types of MOFs—Zn-MOF and ZnCe-MOF—were synthesized utilizing the microchannel reaction method, with water being employed as the solvent. The specific surface area, pore size, and pore volume of Zn-MOF and ZnCe-MOF were 1566.4 and 15.6 m²·g^–1, 0.65 and 7.32 nm, as well as 1.65 and 0.03 cm³·g^–1, respectively. Furthermore, Ce doping not only increased the pore size of ZnCe-MOF but also its adsorption energy from −0.19 eV (Zn-MOF) to −0.53 eV (ZnCe-MOF). At 298 K, the adsorption capacities of Zn-MOF and ZnCe-MOF were 0.66 and 0.74 mmol·g^–1, respectively. In addition, the CO₂ adsorption behaviors of Zn-MOF and ZnCe-MOF were linear and logarithmic, respectively. Theoretical calculations show that the results of adsorption thermodynamic simulations were consistent with the experiments. Thus, the preparation of ZnCe-MOF materials using a microchannel reactor provides a new approach for the continuous preparation of MOFs.

Keywords

Metal-organic framework / microchannel reactor / reaction mechanism / CO₂ capture adsorption

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the Xinjiang Science and Technology Program (Grant No. 2023TSYCCX0118).

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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