Microcalorimetric Study of Water Adsorption on Initial and Polyfluoroalkylated Silicas

Water adsorption on initial and modified Silochrom samples was studied by the adsorption calorimetry. Integral heats of immersional wetting by water were measured simultaneously. It was shown that hydroxyl groups both free and sterically screened by a modifier remain on the modified Silochrom surface. Concentrations of these groups and OH groups chemically interacted with the modifier were estimated. The heat of reaction of water molecules with a free surface OH groups of modified sorbents was determined (≈60 kJ/mol). It was found that the modifying layers of the sorbents are getting loose under the effect of adsorbed water, and water molecules gain access to the sterically screened OH groups; the heat of water interaction with these groups is 54–55 kJ/mol. The energy is consumed for getting the modifying layers loose and the rupture of point contacts between Aerosil particles of the secondary structure of both initial and modified Silochrom that significantly affects the heat of immersion, the differential heat of adsorption, the form of the heat release curve, and the dependence of the differential heat on the adsorption value.     

The influence of grafted functional groups on the adsorption properties of silica

The adsorption properties of silica gel with grafted aminopropyl and guanidinoethanethiol (GET) groups were studied by the techniques of adsorption under static conditions and gas chromatography. It was shown that molecules capable of forming hydrogen bonds are adsorbed on all modified samples more weakly than on the initial silica gel. The grafting of GET radicals on the surface results in a noticiable increase in the dispersion interaction with adsorbed molecules. Calculation of the contributions of molecular groups to the constant of adsorption equilibrium showed that the thermodynamic characteristics of adsorption on aminosilochromes and aminosilicas with a polymeric layer of the modifying agent have similar values. Such adsorbents can be used for investigation of polar compounds, including organic bases. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 3, pp. 452–457, March, 1997.     

Vapor phase adsorption of organic compounds on octyl silicas

The influence of the modification of silica by octyltrichlorosilane with the formation of an oligomeric grafted layer (sample C8(II)) and additional silanization (sample C8(III)) on the thermodynamic adsorption characteristics (TACs) of different classes of organic compounds was investigated by gas chromatography. It was shown that the modification leads to decreased adsorption values for most of the investigated compounds (with the exception of alkanes, for which TACs on sample C8(II) approach the values observed on the initial support, due probably to additional interactions with silanol groups formed in modifying the surface with octyltrichlorosilane). It was established that blocking these silanol groups during additional silanization with trimethylsilane resulted in inert surfaces whose adsorption properties with respect to many compounds (including some capable of participating in strong specific interactions) approaches to the properties of octyl-silica with a close-packed grafted monolayer.     

A microcalorimetric study of the interaction between water and poly(hexamethylene guanidine)-modified kaolinite surface

The isotherms and differential heats of water vapor adsorption on kaolinite modified with poly(hexamethylene guanidine) hydrochloride are measured. Modification efficiency is, to a high extent, determined by the compliance (complementarity) between the structure of the modifying agent and the chemical nature of the kaolinite surface. It is shown that the individual stages of the interaction between water and the modified sorbent comprise sorption of four or five molecules on triads of amino groups of the modifying layer, conformational changes in the layer, the formation of additional adsorption sites, partial rupture of the modifying layer, and the dispersion of kaolinite particles induced by adsorbed water. Alternative opinions are presented on the reason for the appearance of the additional adsorption sites. It is proven that not only the adsorbate, but also the adsorbent, undergoes efficient changes during the adsorption.     

聚乙二醇、聚丙二醇和环氧乙烷-环氧丙烷嵌段共聚物在固-液界面上的吸附 III:硅烷化活性炭/水和甲基化硅胶/水界面

测定了25℃时硅烷化不同时间(1至30天)的活性炭及甲基化硅胶自水溶液中吸附四种聚乙二醇(PEG)、三种聚丙二醇(PPG)和环氧乙烷(EO)-环氧丙烷(PO)嵌段共聚物pluronic-L64的等温线。结果表明, 在各活性炭样品上的等温线均为Langmuir型的; 同一炭样对不同PEG的极限吸附量(g·g^-^1)与分子量无关; 极限吸附时每个PEG分子所占面积(A)与分子中所含EO数(nEO)间有直线关系, 直线的斜率与硅烷化时间有关, 这一结果可用硅烷化时间延长时吸附分子的EO基可能以其氧原子向水, 碳氢链节靠近固体表面取向的模型解释。根据PPG的极限吸附量与分子量有关和极限吸附时的分子面积推断PPG分子不是以平躺方式吸附。甲基化硅胶对PEG的吸附量极小, 对PPG的吸附量随分子量减小急剧降低, 而对L64的吸附量明显大于在亲水硅胶上的。文中对所得结果给出了初步的解释。     

The structure of water and methanol adsorbed on silica gel by FT-NIR spectroscopy

The NIR adsorption spectra were analyzed quantitatively on the fundamental, combination and first overtone region of OH vibrations of silanol groups, water and methanol adsorbed on mesoporous silica gels. Adsorbed methanol constitutes first layer of about 3 molecules/um^–2 and second layer, the structure of which is similar to that of bulk methanol liquid. Adsorbed water consists of a first layer of about 3 molecules/nm^–2, the second layer of about 9 molecules/nm^–2 and the third layer has a structure similar to the that of bulk water. The molecular configuration at the interface is discussed.     

Application of 1H NMR spectroscopy method for determination of characteristics of thin layers of water adsorbed on the surface of dispersed and porous adsorbents

The paper presents 1H NMR spectroscopy as a perspective method of the studies of the characteristics of water boundary layers in the hydrated powders and aqueous dispergated suspensions of the adsorbents. The method involves measurements of temperature dependence proton signals intensity in the adsorbed water at temperatures lower than 273 K. Free energy of water molecules at the adsorbent/water interface is diminished due to the adsorption interactions causing the water dosed to the adsorbent surface freezes at T < 273 K. Thickness of a non-freezing layer of water can be determined from the intensity of the water signal of 1H NMR during the freezing-thawing process. Due to a disturbing action of the adsorbent surface, water occurs in the quasi-liquid state. As a result, it is observed in the 1H NMR spectra as a relatively narrow signal. The signal of ice is not registered due to great differences in the transverse relaxation times of the adsorbed water and ice. The method of measuring the free surface energy of the adsorbents from the temperature dependence of the signal intensity of non-freezing water is based on the fact that the temperature of water freezing decreases by the quantity which depends on the surface energy and the distance of the adsorbed molecules from the solid surface. The water at the interface freezes when the free energies of the adsorbed water and ice are equal. To illustrate the applicability of the method under consideration the series of adsorption systems in which the absorbents used differed in the surface chemistry and porous structure. In particular, the behaviour of water on the surface of the following adsorbents is discussed: non-porous and porous silica (aerosils, silica gels); chemically and physically modified non-porous and porous silica (silanization, carbonization, biopolymer deposition); and pyrogeneous Al2O3 and aluminasilicas. The effect of preliminary treatment of the adsorbent (thermal, high pressure, wetting with polar and non-polar solvents) on the characteristics of the structurized water layers was discussed. The influence of the adsorbent porous structure on the free energy of the adsorbed water was also studied. The discussion of the obtained results was made.     

Study of the State of Benzene Molecules Adsorbed on the Surfaces of Organic Derivatives of Kaolinite and Silica

Values and heats of benzene adsorption on modified kaolinite and silica samples are measured by adsorption calorimetry. Entropy diagrams are calculated for benzene adsorbed on these samples. Obtained results are compared to entropy losses theoretically calculated for benzene molecules using the models of ideal localized and nonlocalized adsorption. It is demonstrated that, depending on the type of an inorganic matrix, the nature of a modifier, and the degree of modification, the adsorption of benzene molecules on studied sorbents is described by the models of a supermobile nonlocalized adsorption or a nonlocalized adsorption accompanied by the loss of some rotational degrees of freedom. For a rare case of the supermobile adsorption of benzene on the modified silica, the vibration frequency of its molecules with respect to the surface is calculated.     

State and structure of water in vicinity of hydrophobic surfaces

Criterial values of the specific heat of water wetting, surface pressure, and contact angle classifying surfaces into hydrophilic and hydrophobic are proposed based on the analysis of own and published data. The most characteristic properties of hydrophobic surfaces, i.e., large surface area per water molecule in the conventional adsorption monolayer and the absence of continuous two-layer water film on the adsorbent surface at vapor pressure close to saturation, are discussed using nonporous carbon-based materials as example. The presence of residual hydrophilic groups that act as sites of the clusterization of polar molecules on the surface of graphitized carbon black is confirmed by gas chromatography and the concentration of these sites is calculated. The amount of water molecules in the surface cluster is determined at different stages of adsorption. Procedures for preparing organically modified layered silicates and silica as basic objects of the study of the interaction between water molecules and hydrophobic surfaces are considered. It is proven that the boundary water layer in the vicinity of hydrophobic surface consists of a thin (∼0.5 nm) depletion layer with a density of 0.4 g/cm³ and a considerable amount (25–30%) of water molecules with free OH groups and thicker (∼35 nm) layer, which is characterized by a more ordered network of hydrogen bonds compared to liquid water. Data obtained by X-ray scattering and neutron and reflection methods, and sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy are compared with the results of calorimetric study of the interaction between water and hydrophobic surface, as well as with the data of molecular-statistical calculations of the state of water molecules in the surface layer.     

Structural Characteristics of Silica Gel Modified with Organosilicon Compounds According to the Data on the Adsorption of Water and n-Hexane Vapors

The adsorption of water, n-hexane and nitrogen vapors on the mesoporous silica gel with the grafted aminopropyl, mercaptopropyl and dimercaptodipropyl groups is investigated. It is shown that aminopropyl groups are oriented in parallel, whereas the mercaptopropyl ones are either vertical or tilted to the initial sorbent surface. The surface area of silica gel that is free of modifiers, as well as the number of vicinal and isolated OH groups are estimated. It is established that hydrogen bonds between the NH₂ groups of aminopropyl radical and isolated OH groups of silica gel are ruptured after the saturation of sorbent with water vapors at a relative pressure of about 0.5. Based on adsorption data, it is concluded that the most of 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane interacts with the isolated OH groups of silica gel with a stoichiometric coefficient equal to unity.     

How silanization of silica particles affects the adsorption of PDMS chains on its surface

A series of six fumed silica types, with different surface areas in the 50–400 m²/g range, were modified by grafting with trimethylchlorosilane. The grafting reaction was controlled by elemental analyses, surface hydroxyl titration, and combustion techniques. The silica surface energy was determined as a function of silanization degree by inverse gas chromatography (IGC). Adsorption of a series of poly(dimethylsiloxane) elastomers with molecular weights ranging between 4 and 420 kg/mol on silica was followed using flow microcalorimeter (FMC). IGC results show that free adsorption energies of two series of alkanes and siloxanes as well as the dispersive component of the surface energy were found to decrease monotonously with surface silanization and so does the polymer molar heat of adsorption. FMC results indicate, however, that the conformation of the macromolecules on silica depends on the silica surface area but remains unaffected by the surface treatments. A given polymer chain was found to remain adsorbed on the surface preserving its same conformation until its molar heat of adsorption falls bellow a critical value. These findings offer a better monitoring of surface–polymer interactions as it defined a comprehensive relationship between the degree of modifications of the filler surface and polymer adsorption conditions. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys, 2010     

硅胶自环己烷中吸附环己酮和苯甲酸

用经不同温度处理的亲水硅胶(表面总羟基浓度不同)和甲基化硅胶(只含有缔合羟基或不同表面浓度的自由羟基的硅胶)为吸附剂, 测定了自环己烷中吸附环己酮和苯甲酸的等温线, 以及几种硅胶样品的红外光谱图, 探讨了表面自由羟基和缔合羟基在溶液吸附中的作用.     

IR spectroscopic study of the reaction of polyalkylhydrosiloxanes with a silica surface

Using IR spectroscopy, we have studied the reaction of polyalkylhydrosiloxanes with a silica surface and the change in the chemical nature and structure of the modified layer upon its thermal oxidation. Upon modification of aerosil A-175 by polymethyl- and polyethylhydrosiloxane, the modifying agent molecules reacts with the surface OH groups. Some of the surface hydroxyl groups are not involved in chemical reaction with the modifying agent, but judging from the position of the corresponding OH-stretch band (3400 cm^–1) they experience the perturbing effect of the polyorganosiloxane film. Thermal oxidation leads to an increase in the number of the lateral bonds in the polyorganosiloxane-modified film; the maximum degree of crosslinking is observed in the case of the aerosil treated with polymethylhydrosiloxane.Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Éksperimental'naya Khimiya, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 753–755, November–December, 1989.     

Hydrophilic Sites on Silica Surface Modified in Gaseous and Liquid Phases

The methods of chromatography, adsorption, and potentiometic titration were used to determine the amount and energetics of the residual hydrophilic sites on the wide-porous silica surfaces modified in gaseous and liquid phases. The concentration of the residual hydrophilic sites on the silica surfaces modified by both methods was shown virtually to be the same. However, the activity of the hydrophilic sites on the sample modified in gaseous phase was significantly higher than that on the sample modified by liquid-phase method. Based on the comparison of the calculated isosteric heats of adsorption of water vapors on the studied modified sorbents with calorimetric heats, which are characteristic for the interaction of water molecules with vicinal and single hydroxyl groups of silica gel, the nature of the residual hydrophilic sites on the silica surfaces modified by these two methods was discussed.     

Intermolecular interactions in liquid adsorption chromatography

Summary For the investigation of intermolecular interactions in adsorption from solution, which are the basis of selectivity in molecular liquid chromatography (LC), it is convenient to use the LC method itself. Using this method the Henry's constants, K₁, and other thermodynamic adsorption characteristics of hydrocarbons and of a series of polar substances on hydroxylated silica surface were determined from aqueous solutions. On the basis of the adsorption of hydrocarbons from water solutions the structure of the chemically modifying layers formed by different hydrocarbon groups on the silica surface is considered. The role of conformation ability of straight-chain bonded phases is demonstrated. Hydrocarbons are adsorbed on the hydroxylated silica surface more strongly from aqueous solutions than from solutions in saturated hydrocarbons and their retention increases with the increase in the number of carbon atoms in the molecule. The retention in LC is determined by the intermolecular interaction of the solute and solvent molecules with the adsorbent, as well by the contribution of the intermolecular interaction, between the solute and the solvent.The thermodynamic characteristics of adsorption of cymarin from water-ethanol solutions on hydroxylated silica gel and on silica gel surface modified by diphenylsilyl groups is compared. The solubility of silica gel modified by diphenylsilyl groups at different composition of water-ethanol eluent at different temperatures is investigated.Enlarged text of a paper presented at the Sixteenth International Symposium on Advances in Chromatography, Barcelona, Spain, September 28–October 1, 1981.     

Monolith Passive Adsorbers Prepared with Hydrophobic Porous Silica Rods Coated with Hydrogel

This work focuses on the synthesis and characterization of porous silica monolith-based adsorbent materials. Materials with bimodal porosity (macro and meso) were prepared through a sol–gel process. The capacity of adsorption of organic molecules was ensured by grafting of hydrophobic organic coating on the silica surface. Alkylsilane chains or lauryl acrylate polymer were used for this purpose. The adsorption kinetic behavior of the produced materials was assessed through benzophenone adsorption studies in aqueous media. The results have shown that the macropore size of the monoliths had no effect on the adsorption capacity. The thicker organic layer prepared by polymerization of lauryl acrylate has decreased the adsorption kinetics without affecting the total adsorption capacity. The over-coating with additional external layer of hydrogel further slowed the diffusion of benzophenone thus better matches the passive-sampler requirements.     

Synthesis and Characterization of Microporous Silica Prepared with Sodium Silicate and Organosilane Compounds

Microporous silica gels were prepared in the pH range of 3–4 using sodium silicate as a silica source. Surface polarity of these gels was modified by grafting hydrophobic groups into the silica gel matrix with the help of hydrophilic solvents (acetone, acetonitrile, ethanol and methanol) and alkoxysilane compounds containing nonhydrolyzable alkyl groups. The porous framework and hydrophobicity of the silica gels were evaluated using nitrogen adsorption/desorption and water adsorption measurement techniques. All the measured isotherms were found to be type I which is indicative of microporosity. The surface area and microporosity of these samples were estimated by analyzing the measured nitrogen adsorption/desorption data using BET, Langmuir and Dubinin-Radushkevich (D-R) adsorption isotherms. The micropore size distribution was determined from their nitrogen adsorption isotherms using the slit-pore model of the Horvath-Kawazoe equation. Silica gels with high surface area (over 500 m²/g) as well as high microporosity (over 0.2 cc/g) were obtained at gelation pH of 3.50 from the water-solvent system.     

Interaction of Globular Albumins with the Silica Surface

Bovine serum albumin macromolecules interact with vicinal hydroxyl groups of the silica surface at carbonyl groups and with isolated surface hydroxyl groups at the imide groups. Geminal surface hydroxyl groups behave as single adsorption sites relative to albumin adsorption. The concentration of such groups on a quartz surface was evaluated. The secondary structure of globular albumins is altered as the result of interaction in the silica–globular albumin system. Extended -segments appear on the surface and the concentration of -spirals decreases. This alteration leads to change in the tertiary globular structure of the albumin. The adsorption of albumin macromolecules on the silica surface is inclined.     

Molecular Conformation and Mobility of Polyamines Adsorbed on Silica Studied by Spin Labeling

Poly(ethyleneimine) and poly(4-vinylpyridine) chains adsorbed on Nucleosil silica have been randomly labeled with nitroxide free radicals. The EPR signal is very sensitive to the molecular Brownian motion of the segments and shows generally at least two different environments: trains adsorbed on the surface with a restricted mobility, and loops and tails protruding into the solution with a fast motion. The rotational correlation times and the relative fraction of each population are given as functions of the coverage achieved and of the specific surface area of the silica for the samples in contact with methanol and sometimes water. The overall picture is consistent with a diffuse layer for the PEI and a more compact one with some heterogeneities for the P4VP. Copyright 1999 Academic Press.     

The Thermal Stability and Adsorbability of the Mechylated Silica Gel

The methylated silica gel has been produced by the reaction between the surface silanol groups and Clsi(CH3)3 vapor.The adsorption isotherms of acetic acid from carbon tetrachloride onto silica gel and emthylated silica gel heated at various temperatures have been determined at 25℃,and the above mentioned silica gels have been studied by TC and IR.The results indicate:(1) The adsorption of acetic acid from carbon tetrachloried onto methylated silica gel decreased greatly,probably because the concentration of the free hydroxyl groups for methylated silica gel decreased greatly as the IR shows.(2) As the methylated surface was destroyed at 450℃,the adsorption ability was restored when the methylated silica gel treated at>500℃.(3) So long as the methylated silica gel was treated at high temperature,the adsorption ability could be restored owing to that surface free hydroxyl groups were reproduced.