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| Author(s): |
Fernando José Volpi Eusébio de Oliveira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Química |
| Defense date: | 2009-09-10 |
| Examining board members: |
Claudio Airoldi;
Daniel Osvaldo Martire;
Fernando Wypych;
Pedro Luiz Onófrio Volpe;
Fernando Aparecido Sígoli
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| Advisor: | Claudio Airoldi |
| Abstract | |
Three set of mesoporous silicas have been synthesized through dodecylamine, cetiltrimethylamonium bromide (CTAB) and the triblock co-polymer EO20-PO70-EO20 (P123 ¿ Pluronic®) as structure directing agents (sda). The inorganic matrices have been functionalized with silylating agents presenting from one to three nitrogen atoms on their chains. In addition, these silanes reacted with thiocarbamide through a free-solvent step, before the silica formation, by co-condensation process. However the synthetic route for the samples templated by P123 was the post-grafting. For the structures obtained by using dodecylamine, HMS-like, it was observed the structure collapsed after template removal, as shown by IR spectra and XRD patterns, before and after the removal process. These samples presented pore size comprised on mesoporous range, being then investigated for toxic metal removal capacity. For the samples prepared from CTAB and P123, the typical reflections for p6mm group materials, named 2D-hexagonal, were observed, and these samples are analogous to MCM-41 and SBA-15 materials, respectively. All thiocarbamide-modified hybrids were applied to metal ions sorption, being adjusted to Langmuir non-linear fit model. The interactions at the solid/liquid interface were determined through microcalorimetry. The results reveal that the SBA-15-like materials present high removal capacity for Cu, Cd e Pb, due to the post-grafting procedure. The samples obtained through cocondensation route, HMS- and MCM-41-like, presented maximum sorption capacity higher than those results for analogous published materials. With exception of Pb, all calorimetric determinations showed that the interactions between the solids and metal ions are exothermic. Another highlighted feature is about the importance of the entropic term that seems to rule the processes for several cases, due to the ion and surface coordinated water molecules displacement. Thus, all studied systems presented an energetically favorable behavior. (AU) | |