Nanoporous Architectures for Multifaceted Clean Energy Applications
- Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA (United States)
Recently, there has been immense interest in the design and synthesis of highly porous organic architectures due to their multifaceted potentials for applications that include gas storage, separation, conductivity, and catalysis. The chemical composition, physical, and textural properties are dictated during synthesis. This allows for the production of materials with enhanced properties relevant to their respective applications. With the exception of microcrystalline covalent-organic frameworks (COFs), these polymeric materials are amorphous with considerably high porosity and well-defined cavities, which render them highly attractive, especially in adsorptive gas storage. Such desirable traits are imparted into organic materials through the use of rigid building blocks that direct the growth of polymer networks without the aid of templating agents. During the award period, we focused our efforts on the synthesis and characterization of porous organic polymers constructed through B-N and C-N bond formation and investigated their performance in gas storage (H2, CH4, CO2) and selective CO2 binding over CH4 and N2. We also demonstrated that thermolysis of nitrogen rich organic polymers afford highly porous nitrogen-rich porous carbons that show remarkable CO2 capture and separation properties.
- Research Organization:
- Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0002576
- OSTI ID:
- 1413392
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-VCU-0002576
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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