Hydrothermal Treatment of Tannin: A Route to Porous Metal Oxides and Metal/Carbon Hybrid Materials
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results and Discussion
2.1. Metal Nano/Micro-Oxides
2.2. Iron/Carbon Hybrid Materials
3. Experimental section
3.1. Materials
3.1.1. Tannin
3.1.2. Synthesis of Metal Nano/Micro Oxides and Iron/Carbon Hybrid Materials
- One vanadium salt: vanadyl sulphate pentahydrate VOSO4·5H2O, supplied by VWR (Radnor, PA, USA);
- One chromium salt: ammonium chromate (NH4)2Cr2O7, supplied by Sigma-Aldrich (Saint-Louis, MO, USA);
- One nickel salt: ammonium nickel sulphate hexahydrate Ni(NH4)2(SO4)2·6H2O, supplied by Sigma-Aldrich;
- One iron salt: ammonium iron(II) sulphate hexahydrate (NH4)2Fe(SO4)2·6H2O, supplied by Merck (Darmstadt, Germany).
3.2. Materials Characterisation
3.2.1. SEM and TEM Observations
3.2.2. Pore Texture Analysis
3.2.3. X-Ray Diffraction
3.2.4. Raman Spectroscopy
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Metal Salt | Specific Weight (g·cm−3) a | BET Surface Area (m2·g−1) | Pore Volume (cm3·g−1) | Particle Size (nm) d | Cystallite Size (nm) e |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
VOSO4·5H2O | 3.27 | 6.5 c | 0.002 c | 280 | 170 |
(NH4)2Cr2O7 | 4.27 | 20.7 c | 0.006 c | 70 | 55 |
Ni(NH4)2(SO4)2·6H2O | 6.10 | 161 b | 0.412 b | 6 | 40 |
(NH4)2Fe(SO4)2·6H2O | 5.24 | 29.2 c | 0.008 c | 40 | 9 |
Fe–Carbon Hybrid Materials Containing: | SBET (m2·g−1) | SDFT (m2·g−1) | V0.97 (cm3·g−1) | Vµ,N2 (cm3·g−1) | Vµ,CO2 (cm3·g−1) | Vµ,NLDFT (cm3·g−1) | Vm (cm3·g−1) | ρ (cm3·g−1) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1% Fe | 513 | 756 | 0.26 | 0.19 | 0.21 | 0.20 | 0.06 | 2.25 |
5% Fe | 545 | 808 | 0.26 | 0.21 | 0.26 | 0.22 | 0.04 | 2.32 |
10% Fe | 545 | 805 | 0.26 | 0.21 | 0.25 | 0.22 | 0.04 | 2.42 |
20% Fe | 568 | 841 | 0.25 | 0.21 | 0.25 | 0.22 | 0.03 | 2.67 |
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Braghiroli, F.L.; Fierro, V.; Szczurek, A.; Gadonneix, P.; Ghanbaja, J.; Parmentier, J.; Medjahdi, G.; Celzard, A. Hydrothermal Treatment of Tannin: A Route to Porous Metal Oxides and Metal/Carbon Hybrid Materials. Inorganics 2017, 5, 7. https://doi.org/10.3390/inorganics5010007
Braghiroli FL, Fierro V, Szczurek A, Gadonneix P, Ghanbaja J, Parmentier J, Medjahdi G, Celzard A. Hydrothermal Treatment of Tannin: A Route to Porous Metal Oxides and Metal/Carbon Hybrid Materials. Inorganics. 2017; 5(1):7. https://doi.org/10.3390/inorganics5010007
Chicago/Turabian StyleBraghiroli, Flavia L., Vanessa Fierro, Andrzej Szczurek, Philippe Gadonneix, Jaafar Ghanbaja, Julien Parmentier, Ghouti Medjahdi, and Alain Celzard. 2017. "Hydrothermal Treatment of Tannin: A Route to Porous Metal Oxides and Metal/Carbon Hybrid Materials" Inorganics 5, no. 1: 7. https://doi.org/10.3390/inorganics5010007