Montmorillonite supported titanium/antimony catalyst: Preparation, characterization and immobilization

Journal of Wuhan University of Technology-Mater. Sci. Ed. volume 29, pages455–462(2014)Cite this article

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Montmorillonite supported titanium (Ti-MMT) or antimony catalyst (Sb-MMT) has been a hot area of research on preparing polyethylene terephthalate/montmorillonite (PET/MMT) nanocomposites by in situ polymerization. So removal of Ti or Sb from Ti-MMT or Sb-MMT is not expected during in situ polymerization. Studies on immobilization of Ti or Sb on Ti-MMT or Sb-MMT are seldom reported. In this work, a series of montmorillonite supported catalysts of titanium (Ti-MMT) or antimony (Sb-MMT) and cointercalated montmorillonite of titanium and antimony (Ti/Sb-MMT) were prepared by (1) the reaction of sodium bentonite suspension with intercalating solution containing titanium tetrachloride and/or antimony chloride, and (2) drying or calcinating the products at different temperature (100, 150, 240, 350 and 450 °C). The physicochemical properties of these MMT supported catalysts were studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD), fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICPOES), N2 adsorption/desorption isotherms, UV-visible diffuse reflectance spectroscopy(UV-vis) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The immobile character of Ti or Sb on MMT supported catalysts was evaluated by a two-step method in deionized water or ethylene glycol. Several results were obtained, i e, (a) during the preparation, with an increase in drying or calcinating temperature, the amount of titanium and/or antimony species remained on these MMT supported catalysts decreased, (b) the experiments about immobile character of Ti or/and Sb showed that with an increase in drying or calcinating temperature, the immobilization of Ti and/or Sb species remained on these MMT supported catalysts increased gradually, (c) Ti-MMT calcinated at 450 °C had the biggest pore volume, which means Ti-MMT had the best adsorption application prospect.

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    Guiyong Chen 陈贵勇, Xiaoqun Wang 王小群, Chuan Zhao & Shanyi Du

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Chen, G., Wang, X., Zhao, C. et al. Montmorillonite supported titanium/antimony catalyst: Preparation, characterization and immobilization. J. Wuhan Univ. Technol.-Mat. Sci. Edit. 29, 455–462 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11595-014-0939-y

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Key words

  • montmorillonite
  • titanium
  • antimony
  • intercalation
  • immobilization