TY - JOUR
T1 - Multiscale investigation of a bioresidue as a novel intercalant for sodium montmorillonite
AU - Fini, Ellie H.
AU - Høgsaa, Bjarke
AU - De Claville Christiansen, Jesper
AU - Sanporean, Catalina Gabriela
AU - Jensen, Erik Appel
AU - Mousavi, Masoumeh
AU - Pahlavan, Farideh
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is sponsored by Aalborg University, the Denmark-America Fulbright Commission, and the National Science Foundation (Award No. 1546921). The content of this paper reflects the view of the authors, who are responsible for the facts and the accuracy of the data presented. The authors would like to acknowledge Donghong Yu, with the Chemistry and Bioscience Department at Aalborg University, for his support and guidance with the X-ray diffraction measurements. The authors would like to also acknowledge the bio-oil group at the Department of Energy Technology at Aalborg University and the Sustainable Infrastructure Materials lab at North Carolina A&T State University, for assisting with the gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and providing bioresidue for examination, respectively.
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© 2017 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2017/1/26
Y1 - 2017/1/26
N2 - This paper investigates the efficacy of a novel bioresidue (made from biomass) for organic modification of sodium montmorillonite clay. To this end, montmorillonite was biomodified using a solution-intercalation processing technique. The results of experiments, carried out using techniques of XRD, FTIR, TGA, and oscillatory rheometry, showed that strong interactions exist between certain molecular species of bioresidue (e.g., amide and carboxyl groups) and silicate platelets of montmorillonite clay, leading to a highly intercalated clay structure. An atomic-level analysis using density functional theory (DFT) was also employed to study the effect of the bioresidue's polar functional groups on the basal d-spacing of montmorillonite. On the basis of DFT results, the overall increase in the gallery spacing observed for amide and carboxyl intercalants could be attributed to the ion- dipole and dipole-dipole interactions and, most importantly, reduction in positive charge of the gallery space. This reduction of positive charge promotes the steric repulsive interactions between the montmorillonite layers that is manifested in an increase of the basal d-spacing.
AB - This paper investigates the efficacy of a novel bioresidue (made from biomass) for organic modification of sodium montmorillonite clay. To this end, montmorillonite was biomodified using a solution-intercalation processing technique. The results of experiments, carried out using techniques of XRD, FTIR, TGA, and oscillatory rheometry, showed that strong interactions exist between certain molecular species of bioresidue (e.g., amide and carboxyl groups) and silicate platelets of montmorillonite clay, leading to a highly intercalated clay structure. An atomic-level analysis using density functional theory (DFT) was also employed to study the effect of the bioresidue's polar functional groups on the basal d-spacing of montmorillonite. On the basis of DFT results, the overall increase in the gallery spacing observed for amide and carboxyl intercalants could be attributed to the ion- dipole and dipole-dipole interactions and, most importantly, reduction in positive charge of the gallery space. This reduction of positive charge promotes the steric repulsive interactions between the montmorillonite layers that is manifested in an increase of the basal d-spacing.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b11966
DO - 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b11966
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85024502500
SN - 1932-7447
VL - 121
SP - 1794
EP - 1802
JO - Journal of Physical Chemistry C
JF - Journal of Physical Chemistry C
IS - 3
ER -