NiO-La_2O_3-Al_2O_3气凝胶催化剂的制备

采用改进的溶胶 -凝胶法和超临界干燥技术制备出超细三元 Ni O- L a2 O3 - Al2 O3 气凝胶催化剂 .通过 BET、TEM、XRD、DTA、IR等物性表征 ,考察了煅烧温度和组成等对气凝胶催化剂制备的影响 .结果表明 ,此种方法制备的多元气凝胶催化剂不仅保留了氧化铝和 Ni O- Al2 O3 气凝胶的主要特征 ,而且 ,氧化镧的加入使气凝胶更易晶化 ,热稳定性更好和吸附能力更强 .这种改进的溶胶 -凝胶法和超临界干燥技术操作简单有效 ,适合要求组分之间相互作用强、分布均匀、结构热稳定性好的多组元负载催化剂的制备 .     

块状石英纤维/Al_2O_3气凝胶复合材料的非超临界干燥法制备及表征

采用溶胶-凝胶法和常压干燥法以N,N′-二甲基甲酰胺(DMF)作为干燥控制化学添加剂制备了低密度石英纤维增强Al2O3气凝胶复合材料.通过氮气吸附-脱附实验比较研究了石英纤维对氧化铝气凝胶孔结构参数的影响;采用X射线衍射技术表征了在升温过程中石英纤维/Al2O3气凝胶复合材料的相结构变化;利用扫描电子显微镜和透射电子显微镜观察了Al2O3气凝胶基体及其石英纤维复合材料的微观形貌;初步探讨了DMF对Al2O3气凝胶形貌和密度的影响.研究结果表明石英纤维/Al2O3气凝胶复合材料成块性好,纤维与气凝胶基体结合紧密,石英纤维提高了Al2O3相转变温度,适量的DMF有利于形成均匀凝胶网络结构,减小干燥收缩压力.     

以无机铝盐为前驱体用溶胶凝胶法合成中孔氧化铝

以水合硝酸铝(Al(NO3)3·9H2O)为前驱体, 通过乙醇介质中环氧丙烷的开环反应促使形成了透明的块状氧化铝凝胶. 凝胶在常压下干燥并于700 ℃焙烧后得到中孔无定型氧化铝. 通过改变环氧丙烷的加入量实现了氧化铝孔径和孔体积等宏观结构性能的调节. 用扫描电镜(SEM)、傅立叶变换红外光谱(FI-IR)和差热分析(DTA)等方法对样品进行了表征. 由于合成中存在环氧丙烷开环产物作为液体模板剂的造孔作用, 在氧化铝凝胶中造成了孔分布曲线具有双峰分布的墨水瓶状孔. 反应过程中pH值的测定和红外光谱的表征结果都证明环氧丙烷是一种很好的质子消耗剂, 其开环促使铝离子水解聚合并形成凝胶网络结构. 同时根据表征结果对环氧丙烷参与的溶胶凝胶氧化铝的合成机理进行了探讨.     

添加环氧丙烷法常压干燥制备ZrO2气凝胶

以无机锆盐硝酸氧锆(ZrO(NO3)2·5H2O)为前驱体,1,2-环氧丙烷(PO)为凝胶促进剂,甲酰胺(FA)为干燥控制化学添加剂(DCCA),采用溶胶-凝胶法并通过常压干燥制备了轻质二氧化锆(ZrO2)气凝胶,利用差热分析(DTA)、扫描电镜(SEM)、N2吸附/脱附等测试技术对所制得的ZrO2气凝胶进行了表征.结果表明:添加环氧丙烷常压干燥制得的ZrO2气凝胶具有纳米尺寸的多孔网络结构,表观密度可低至202.08 kg·m-3,比表面积可高达645.0 m2·g-1,与超临界干燥效果相当.环氧丙烷因其环氧原子的强亲核性和不可逆的开环反应,可促进凝胶化,并通过环氧丙烷的量控制反应过程和凝胶状态.     

超细镍基催化剂上CH4-CO2重整反应的性能Ⅱ.制备方法对催化性能和抗积碳性能的影响

采用溶胶-凝胶法和超临界干燥(SCD)技术制备了超细二元NiO-Al2O3和三元NiO-La2O3-Al2O3催化剂,并以浸渍超细氧化铝载体和普通氧化铝载体制得的二元和三元催化剂为对比,考察了不同制备方法对催化剂上CH4-CO2重整反应性能的影响.结果表明,超细催化剂表现出很高的高温催化活性、选择性和显著的抗积碳能力,即使不含助剂的超细二元催化剂也明显优于含镧助剂的负载三元催化剂,而含镧的超细三元催化剂又好于超细二元催化剂,显示了溶胶-凝胶法和SCD制备技术的优越性.重整反应气氛下催化剂的活性表面是可变和可恢复的,而高活性、高选择性及高抗积碳能力与合理的产品分布是一致的.     

块状TiO2气凝胶的制备及其表征

随着以溶胶-凝胶法和超临界干燥技术为基础的气凝胶制备方法的逐步完善,已不断制备出多种气凝胶[1～3].由于TiO2具有半导体特性,它常被作为光催化剂而受到重视,但是TiO2气凝胶的结构强度远比SiO2气凝胶小,在制备过程中极易碎裂粉化,所以至今未见制备块状TiO2气凝胶的报道.Dagan等[4]曾用异钛酸丁酯为母体制得TiO2气凝胶,并发现水杨酸在TiO2气凝胶存在下的光解速率是一般TiO2粉末的10倍,但获得的仅为TiO2气凝胶粉末.张敬畅等[5]以无机盐为原料,采用溶胶-凝胶法结合超临界干燥技术制备了纳米级TiO2气凝胶,也未能得到块状TiO2气凝胶材料. 本文报道以正钛酸丁酯为原料制备块状TiO2气凝胶的方法,并用TEM,SEM,XRD和IR等手段对所获得的气凝胶进行了结构表征.     

模板法制备介孔氧化铝及Eu3+离子组装

通过溶胶-凝胶法,以三嵌段共聚物F-127为模板制备有序介孔氧化铝(P-Al2O3)粉末,用热失重分析、X射线粉末衍射(XRD)、低角X射线粉末衍射(LAXRD)和比表面测量仪进行物相分析与孔径分析,利用高倍透射电子显微镜(HRTEM)表征介孔材料的形貌.研究表明,40℃下制备的介孔氧化铝经过高温除模板后,孔径大小分布较集中,有序性好.进一步通过水热反应法,获得了Eu3 的P-Al2O3组装体.研究了组装体系的光谱特性,并观察到介孔氧化铝基质与客体离子Eu3 之间产生的能量传递现象.     

常压干燥法制备气凝胶的研究进展

气凝胶是一类轻质、低密度的三维纳米多孔固态材料,因其独特的高孔隙率、高比表面积和低导热系数等特性,使其在吸附、催化、保温隔热和隔音等诸多领域具有广泛的用途,目前其相关研究在材料科学领域受到了广泛的关注。气凝胶的制备主要包括溶胶-凝胶过程和湿凝胶干燥两个步骤,湿凝胶的干燥是制备气凝胶过程中至关重要而又较为困难的一步。传统的气凝胶通过超临界干燥制备,工艺复杂、成本高,而且由于干燥过程在高温高压条件下进行,有一定的危险性并且不适宜大规模生产,因此如何通过常压干燥获得高比表面积、高孔隙率、低密度的性能优异的气凝胶是其研究的重要方向之一。本文简要介绍了湿凝胶的制备以及凝胶干燥理论,详细介绍了近年来常压干燥方法气凝胶制备的研究进展,并对其未来发展前景做出了展望。     

添加三甲基乙氧基硅烷制备耐高温硅/铝复合气凝胶

以仲丁醇铝(ASB)和三甲基乙氧基硅烷(TMEO)为前驱体,采用溶胶-凝胶法,经乙醇超临界干燥制备了耐温高、成型性好的硅/铝复合气凝胶。用透射电子显微镜、N2吸附分析仪、红外光谱仪、X射线衍射仪、hot disk热分析仪等仪器表征了气凝胶的形貌、孔结构、表面基团、晶相、热学等性能。在溶胶-凝胶过程中,通过添加TMEO在氧化铝纳米颗粒表面引入了-Si-(CH_3)_3基团,该基团经高温热处理后会在Al_2O_3表面形成SiO_2纳米颗粒,有效地抑制了Al_2O_3纳米颗粒在高温下的晶体生长,使得该复合气凝胶具有优异的耐温性能。在1 200℃高温处理后,线性收缩低至16%,比表面积可达141 m~2·g~(-1),这将进一步促进气凝胶材料在高温保温隔热、吸附、催化等领域的广泛应用。     

新型Ni-Mo/Al2O3加氢脱硫催化剂的研究

采用溶胶凝胶技术,制备了双结构Al2O3载体,用此改性载体制备了Ni-Mo/Al2O3催化剂,在中压固定床微反装置上考察了载体改性对催化剂上噻吩加氢脱硫(HDS)活性的影响,并用X射线粉末衍射、透射电镜、吡啶-红外光谱等分析方法对改性载体和催化剂进行了表征。结果表明,由铝溶胶改性载体制备催化剂的加氢脱硫活性均高于未改性载体制备的催化剂的催化活性。XRD和TEM结果表明氧化铝表面负载的铝溶胶经过干燥、焙烧后以纳米尺度的η-Al2O3状态存在,吡啶-红外光谱结果表明,改性氧化铝载体制备催化剂的弱B酸和弱L酸的酸量均提高,强L酸的酸量也明显增加。酸性、酸量的提高和纳米尺度η-Al2O3的存在是催化剂活性提高的主要原因。     

块状TiO2/SiO2气凝胶的非超临界干燥法制备及其表征

分别通过TiO2和SiO2的单独溶胶和TiO2/SiO2复合凝胶,并添加干燥控制化学添加剂甲酰胺,形成比较完善的凝胶网络结构,同时通过正硅酸乙酯的乙醇溶液浸泡,低表面张力溶剂替换和分级陈化以及干燥等步骤,实现了块状TiO2/SiO2复合气凝胶的非超临界干燥制备.所得TiO2/SiO2气凝胶为无色或乳白色轻质块状多孔固体,表观密度约0.4～0.9g/cm3,孔隙率约80%～95%.它由直径约10nm的TiO2和SiO2微粒相互分散复合而成,孔洞直径约几十纳米.其相态SiO2为无定形,TiO2为锐钛矿晶型.随着焙烧温度的升高,直到800℃不发生相变化.     

Effect of iron acetylacetonate on physico-chemical properties of waterglass based aerogels by ambient pressure drying

The effect of iron acetylacetonate on the physico-chemical properties of waterglass based silica aerogels by ambient pressure drying has been investigated. Doping the gels with iron acetylacetonat (FeAA) facilitates in the diminution of the density of the aerogels. The well established silica network provides effective confinement of FeAA nanoparticles which resists the collapse of silica network during ambient pressure drying. Therefore, in the present paper, the effects of FeAA on the physico-chemical properties of the aerogels have been studied by varying the FeAA:Na₂SiO₃ molar ratio from 3 × 10⁻⁴ to 6 × 10⁻⁴. The aerogels were prepared via ambient pressure drying and characterized by the bulk density, thermal conductivity and water contact angle. The aerogel’s surface morphology, elemental analysis and pore structure were characterized by means of EDAX and FTIR, TEM and N₂ adsorption- desorption analyzer. The high temperature hydrophobicity of these aerogels was checked by heating them in temperature controlled furnace. Silica aerogels with low density ~0.050 g/cc have been obtained using the molar ratio of Na₂SiO₃:H₂O:FeAA:Citric acid:TMCS at 1:146.67:3 × 10⁻⁴:0.54:9.46, respectively. EDAX and FTIR studies show that the iron species are entrapped in the mesoporous framework and not took part in the bonding with silica.     

Application of ZrO2-Al2O3 Aerogels to Catalysts

ZrO2-Al2O3 aerogels were prepared by hydrolysis of metal alkoxides in alcoholic solutions and supercritical drying in order to obtain an improved de-NOx catalyst with high activity in a wide temperature range. The aerogels have about 20–50% higher activity than the xerogels in the range 300–600°C. The higher activity of aerogels may be attributed to the higher effective gas diffusivity in them, estimated to be about 20–60 times higher than that of the xerogels, because of their high porosity and large pore size. The catalytic activity of aerogels containing 4–10 mol% ZrO2 is more than 20% higher than that of Al2O3 aerogels at temperatures <450°C.     

Ultraporous single phase iron oxide-silica nanostructured aerogels from ferrous precursors

Monoliths of iron oxide-silica aerogel nanocomposites have been synthesized using a novel synthesis route which consists of impregnating silica wet gels with anhydrous iron(II) precursors followed by ethanol supercritical drying of the gels. The process yields aerogels exhibiting high porosity, large surface areas (approximately 900 m2/g), rather low densities (approximately 0.6 g/cm3), and a homogeneous distribution of single-phase maghemite, gamma-Fe2O3, nanoparticles with average sizes in the 7-8 nm range. Remarkably, the gamma-Fe2O3 nanoparticles are obtained in the as-dried state without the need of postannealing. The nanoparticles are mostly superparamagnetic at room temperature but become blocked in a ferrimagnetic state at lower temperatures.     

Effect of post-treatment (gel aging) on the properties of methyltrimethoxysilane based silica aerogels prepared by two-step sol–gel process

The properties of silica aerogels are highly dependent on the post-treatment steps like gel washing, gel aging and gel drying. The experimental results of the studies on one of the post-treatment steps i.e. gel aging effect on the physical and microstructural properties of methyltrimethoxysilane (MTMS) based silica aerogels, are reported. These hybrid aerogels were prepared by two step sol–gel process followed by supercritical drying. The molar ratio of MeOH/MTMS (M) was varied from 7 to 35 by keeping the H₂O/MTMS (W) molar ratio constant at 4. The as prepared alcogels of different molar ratios were aged from 0 to 5 days. It was observed that 2 days of gel aging period is the optimum gel aging period for good quality aerogels in terms of low density, less volume shrinkage and high porosity. The well tailored network matrix with low density (0.04 g/cm³), less volume shrinkage (4.5%), low thermal conductivity (0.05 W/mK) and high porosity (98.84 %) was obtained for 2 days of gel aging period of M = 35. Further, the gelation time varied from 8 to 1 h depending on the M values. The gelation time was being more for lesser M values. The aerogels were characterized by bulk density, porosity, volume shrinkage, thermal conductivity, Scanning Electron Microscopy and the Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy.     

Structural characterization of hierarchically porous alumina aerogel and xerogel monoliths

Detailed nanostructures have been investigated for hierarchically porous alumina aerogels and xerogels prepared from ionic precursors via sol–gel reaction. Starting from AlCl₃·6H₂O and poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) dissolved in a H₂O/EtOH mixed solvent, monolithic wet gels were synthesized using propylene oxide (PO) as a gelation initiator. Hierarchically porous alumina xerogels and aerogels were obtained after evaporative drying and supercritical drying, respectively. Macroporous structures are formed as a result of phase separation, while interstices between the secondary particles in the micrometer-sized gel skeletons work as mesoporous structures. Alumina xerogels exhibit considerable shrinkage during the evaporative drying process, resulting in relatively small mesopores (from 5.4 to 6.2 nm) regardless of the starting composition. For shrinkage-free alumina aerogels, on the other hand, the median mesopore size changes from 13.9 to 33.1 nm depending on the starting composition; the increases in PEO content and H₂O/EtOH volume ratio both contribute to producing smaller mesopores. Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) analysis reveals that variation of median mesopore size can be ascribed to the change in agglomeration state of primary particles. As PEO content and H₂O/EtOH ratio increase, secondary particles become small, which results in relatively small mesopores. The results indicate that the agglomeration state of alumina primary particles is influenced by the presence of weakly interacting phase separation inducers such as PEO.     

Non-supercritically dried silica–silica composite aerogel and its possible application for confining simulated nuclear wastes

The simpler non-supercritical drying approach has been used for the first time for the preparation of silica–silica composite aerogels (CA) and the efficiency of the process being demonstrated by testing the use of the aerogels for simulated high level nuclear waste confinement. Compositions of 5, 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 wt% of silica (aerosil® 380) in silica–aerogel were prepared by introducing pyrogenic silica in to silica sol derived by hydrolysis of Tetraethoxy silane (TEOS). The silica–silica composite aerogels (CA) possessed very high surface area and low bulk densities. The effectiveness of the prepared composite aerogels as precursor for high level nuclear waste immobilized glass is also presented. Neodymium nitrate dissolved in isopropanol is used to simulate +3 valent actinides. The stability of neodymium in the glass matrix has been found to be extremely high. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has been used to characterise the aerogels as well as neodymium incorporated sintered gels. X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies of the sintered samples reveal the formation of neodymium silicates.     

SiO2气凝胶的非超临界干燥法制备及其形成过程

通过对正硅酸乙酯的两步水解-缩聚反应速率的调控，使生成的醇凝胶具有比较完整的网络结构，配合乙醇溶剂替换和正硅酸乙酯乙醇溶液浸泡和陈化，改善和增强凝胶的结构和强度，在分级干燥下实现了SiO2气凝胶的非超临界干燥制备，并采用SEM、TEM、TG-DTA、XRD和吸附-脱附技术等手段对所得气凝胶样品进行表征.结果表明, 该气凝胶是由粒径约10 nm均匀球状纳米粒子构成的具有连续网络结构的低密度多孔材料，密度为200～400 kg•m－3，孔径分布在10～30 nm范围内，孔隙率约为91％，比表面高达625.65 m2•g－1.外观及微观构造与应用超临界干燥制得的气凝胶完全一致.调节反应体系中各组分的配比以及控制两步水解-缩聚过程中酸与碱的加入量可以获得不同密度的块状SiO2气凝胶.     

Europium-Containing Organic Gels and Organic and Carbon Aerogels. Preparation and Initial Applications in Catalysis

We prepared organic gels and organic and carbon aerogels doped with europium through sol–gel processes. Eu-gels were prepared by sol–gel polymerization of the potassium salt of 2,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid with formaldehyde followed by ion-exchange with Eu(OTf)₃. Eu–organic aerogels were obtained after CO₂ supercritical drying of the gels and Eu–carbon aerogels were obtained by pyrolysing the organic aerogels. The Eu-gels containing 12% europium proved to be efficient as recoverable catalyst in Michael additions.     

Europium-Containing Organic Gels and Organic and Carbon Aerogels. Preparation and Initial Applications in Catalysis

Summary. We prepared organic gels and organic and carbon aerogels doped with europium through sol–gel processes. Eu-gels were prepared by sol–gel polymerization of the potassium salt of 2,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid with formaldehyde followed by ion-exchange with Eu(OTf)₃. Eu–organic aerogels were obtained after CO₂ supercritical drying of the gels and Eu–carbon aerogels were obtained by pyrolysing the organic aerogels. The Eu-gels containing 12% europium proved to be efficient as recoverable catalyst in Michael additions. Deceased on February 20, 2006