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Polyamidoamine dendrimer functionalized cellulose nanocrystals for CO2 capture

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In this work, the CO2 capture performance of polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimer functionalized cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) of different generations (CNC-G1 ~ G4) was evaluated under dry conditions at 25–45 °C by thermogravimetric analysis. Compared with bare CNCs and CNC-derivatives, including carboxylated CNCs (CNC-COOH) and aminated CNCs (CNC-NH2), the PAMAM dendrimer functionalized CNC-G1 ~ G4 showed higher CO2 capture capacity under different dry conditions, demonstrating the enhanced CO2 capture performance by the PAMAM dendrimer structure on the CNCs. The second generation of PAMAM functionalized CNCs (CNC-G2) exhibited a CO2 capture capacity of 13.31 ± 0.38 mg/g at 25 °C, 9.64 ± 0.60 mg/g at 35 °C, and 9.18 ± 1.27 mg/g at 45 °C, respectively, prevailing among all the samples. Both pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order kinetic models were used to fit the adsorption kinetics, while the latter gave better fitting to experimental data. The activation energy obtained from the pseudo-second-order kinetic model was 55.67 kJ/mol for CO2 capture on CNC-G2, indicating an adsorption mechanism of dominant physisorption with slight chemisorption for CO2 capture. The FTIR spectra of CNC-G2 before and after CO2 adsorption–desorption cycle at 45 °C evidenced the formation of ammonium carbamate during CO2 capture, contributing to the high tolerance of CO2 desorption under the subsequent drier conditions (95 °C in N2 gas flow).

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The authors acknowledge the Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Start-up Fund from the University of Calgary, the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) for its Global Research Initiative in Sustainable Low Carbon Unconventional Resources, and Canada Foundation of Innovation (CFI) for the support of the work.

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Wang, Y., He, X. & Lu, Q. Polyamidoamine dendrimer functionalized cellulose nanocrystals for CO2 capture. Cellulose 28, 4241–4251 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-021-03787-w

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