Rapid synthesis of solid amine composites based on short mesochannel SBA-15 for CO2 capture

Hydrothermal is common process for synthesizing well-ordered mesoporous silica, however, it costs time and energy simultaneously. To improve the efficiency of synthesis process, it is necessary to propose a facile synthesis strategy with less time and energy requirement. In this study, an innovative non-hydrothermal method using NH 3 ∙H 2 O as catalyst after ripening step is developed to prepare SBA-15 with short mesochannels (SSBA-15) for the first time. The synthesis period of SSBA-15 framework was extremely shortened within 40 min under the optimized conditions (30 min of ripening step and 25% of NH 3 ∙H 2 O concentration), while obtained material exhibits well-ordered hexagonal pore structure and fine particle morphology of SSBA-15 (pore length of 250 ± 50 nm and mesopore size of 9.8 nm). This method can also be employed to synthesize conventional SBA-15 successfully. Moreover, the application of SSBA-15 as support of solid amine adsorbents on CO 2 adsorption and well-fitting of experimental CO 2 adsorption data with Avrami and intraparticle diffusion models reveal that the adsorbents combine the advantages of micro-mesoporous structure, short mesochannel and amine reagents (high affinity of CO 2 ), resulting in enhanced molecular diffusion, fast adsorption kinetics and high CO 2 adsorption capacity . Notably, the solid amine adsorbents exhibited excellent regeneration ability during ten adsorption-desorption cycles. This work opens up new opportunities in efficient preparation of materials that require hydrothermal process.