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Robust and Flexible Carbon Nanofibers Doped with Amine Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes for Efficient CO 2 Capture
Author(s) -
Iqbal Nousheen,
Wang Xianfeng,
Yu Jianyong,
Ding Bin
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
advanced sustainable systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.499
H-Index - 24
ISSN - 2366-7486
DOI - 10.1002/adsu.201600028
Subject(s) - materials science , carbon nanofiber , carbon nanotube , carbon fibers , nanofiber , adsorption , nanotechnology , flexibility (engineering) , electrospinning , porosity , composite material , fabrication , amine gas treating , chemical engineering , chemistry , organic chemistry , polymer , statistics , mathematics , composite number , engineering , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
Porous carbon nanofibrous materials have great potential for energy‐efficient CO 2 capture and separations, but a major hurdle is the lack of mechanical strength and flexibility. Herein, the authors report a facile strategy for the fabrication of amine functionalized carbon nanotube (NC) doped carbon nanofibers (CNFs) (denoted as NC@CNFs) with high flexibility and hierarchical porosity. The NC@CNFs are used as robust fibrous adsorption materials for CO 2 capture, which achieve superior CO 2 uptake of 6.3 mmol g −1 at 1.0 bar and 298 K, as well as remarkable CO 2 /N 2 selectivity and excellent cyclability. Integrating NC into CNFs not only brings number of adsorption sites (i.e., NH 2 ) and tunable hierarchical pores for CO 2 uptake, but also serves as single‐fiber‐crack connection to prevent NC@CNFs from brittle fracture. More significantly, the flexible NC@CNFs with highly stable structure and mechanical strength can overcome the limitation of easy pulverization and structure collapses for traditional particle‐shaped solid sorbents, which makes them highly operable and applicable. This work paves the way for a new route to produce fibrous textile materials with high flexibility and outstanding performance for gas separation.