TY - JOUR
T1 - Nanostructures of Ionic Liquids Confined in Pores of SBA-15
T2 - Insights from Experimental Studies and Mean-Field Density Functional Theory
AU - Lapshin, Dmitry N.
AU - Gromov, Andrei V.
AU - Campbell, Eleanor E.B.
AU - Sarkisov, Lev
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Edinburgh Global Research Scholarship and the Principal’s Career Development PhD Scholarship. This work has made use of the resources provided by the Edinburgh Compute and Data Facility (ECDF) ( http://www.ecdf.ed.ac.uk/ ). E.E.B.C. acknowledges financial support from EPSRC FlexiICCS (EP/N024613/1). The authors thank Prof. P. Monson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) for sharing the MFDFT code used in the reported studies.
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© 2021 American Chemical Society
PY - 2021/9/30
Y1 - 2021/9/30
N2 - The arrangement of ionic liquids (ILs) within mesoporous ordered silica SBA-15 is revealed from nitrogen physisorption experiments combined with non-local density functional theory analysis of the pore structure and mean-field density functional theory (MFDFT). Using MFDFT on simple lattice models, we outline possible scenarios for IL distributions within the pores and conditions under which they originate. MFDFT predictions for nitrogen adsorption on these models of pore structures modified with ILs are in qualitative agreement with the experimental results. They demonstrate that the distribution of the ILs inside the pores of SBA-15 is sensitive to solid-fluid interactions, leading to different structures as a function of loading. This study also recommends the MFDFT and lattice models as a powerful framework for the interpretation of nitrogen sorption behavior, which complements the existing theoretical and experimental techniques to characterize the structure of supported ILs.
AB - The arrangement of ionic liquids (ILs) within mesoporous ordered silica SBA-15 is revealed from nitrogen physisorption experiments combined with non-local density functional theory analysis of the pore structure and mean-field density functional theory (MFDFT). Using MFDFT on simple lattice models, we outline possible scenarios for IL distributions within the pores and conditions under which they originate. MFDFT predictions for nitrogen adsorption on these models of pore structures modified with ILs are in qualitative agreement with the experimental results. They demonstrate that the distribution of the ILs inside the pores of SBA-15 is sensitive to solid-fluid interactions, leading to different structures as a function of loading. This study also recommends the MFDFT and lattice models as a powerful framework for the interpretation of nitrogen sorption behavior, which complements the existing theoretical and experimental techniques to characterize the structure of supported ILs.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c06592
DO - 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c06592
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85115995152
SN - 1932-7447
VL - 125
SP - 21254
EP - 21269
JO - Journal of Physical Chemistry C
JF - Journal of Physical Chemistry C
IS - 38
ER -