Vanadium oxide grafted on mesoporous silica SBA-15 has been synthesized using a controlled grafting process. Its structure has been thoroughly investigated using different characterization techniques, including N2-physisorption, X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Raman spectroscopy, H2 temperature-programmed reduction, X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES), and ex...

Amino-functionalized SBA-15 mesoporous silica was prepared, characterized, and used as an adsorbent for heavy metal ions. The organic–inorganic hybrid material was obtained by a grafting procedure using SBA-15 silica with 3-aminopropyl-triethoxysilane and bis(2,4,4-trimethylpentyl) phosphinic acid (Cyanex 272), respectively. The structure and physicochemical properties of the materials were cha...

SBA-15 prepared via ethanol extraction for template removing was grafted with three kinds of amine precursors (mono-, di-, tri-aminosilanes) to synthesis new CO₂ adsorbents. The SBA-15 support and the obtained adsorbents were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), N₂ adsorption/desorption, thermogravimetry (TG), elemental analysis, Fourier transform infra...

In this study, the potential of 8-Hydroxyquinoline grafted SBA-15 to extract of Cu2+ cations from aqueous solutions was investigated. SBA-15 nanoporous silica was chemically grafted with 8-Hydroxyquinoline groupsaccording to the procedure in the literature. The presence of organic groups in the silica framework was demonstrated by FTIR spectrum. The grafted product showed th...

The grafting and sulfation of zirconia conformal monolayers on SBA-15 to create mesoporous catalysts of tunable solid acid/base character is reported. Conformal zirconia and sulfated zirconia (SZ) materials exhibit both Brönsted and Lewis acidity, with the Brönsted/Lewis acid ratio increasing with film thickness and sulfate content. Grafted zirconia films also exhibit amphoteric character, whos...

The dihydride pincer complex [IrH2(POCOP)] reacts with surface silanols of mesoporous silica (SBA-15) to give the coordinatively unsaturated, yet stable hydridesiloxo Ir(III) species [IrH(O-SBA-15)(POCOP)]. The silica-grafted complex catalyses the hydrogenation of ethene and propene at low temperature and pressure without prior activation.

A nanocasting method to fabricate nitrogen-doped dual mesoporous carbon is proposed by the carbonization of nitrile functional ionic liquid (FIL) grafted SBA-15 for the first time. These carbon materials have high nitrogen content (12.8%), large specific surface areas (763 m(2) g(-1)) and uniform rod morphologies, which are derived from FILs grafted on the surface of SBA-15. Furthermore, by adj...

The partial oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde was studied over highly dispersed vanadia supported on mesoporous silica SBA-15 (VOx/SBA-15). VOx/SBA-15 catalysts were prepared by a novel grafting/ion-exchange method and characterized using UV-VISand Raman spectroscopy. The resulting surface vanadium oxide species (0 – 2.3 V/nm), grafted on the inner pores of the SBA-15 silica matrix, consist...

Nanostructured vanadia model catalysts, i.e. highly dispersed vanadium oxide supported on mesoporous silica SBA-15 (VOx/SBA-15), were prepared. The mechanism for the synthesis of VOx/SBA-15 was elucidated by detailed characterization of the individual synthesis steps using XPS and vibrational spectrocopy. The resulting surface vanadium oxide species (0 – 2.3 V/nm), grafted on the inner pores of...

The adsorption and activation of both CO2 methanol are mainly affected by the distance Lewis acid site, Zr4+, base, Zr4+/O2−, Zr-based catalysts. In this paper, Zr-incorporated SBA-15 (Zr-SBA-15) Zr-grafted (Zr/SBA-15) catalysts were prepared with different Zr environments, analyzed N2 adsorption–desorption isotherms, X-ray diffraction, UV-vis spectra, XPS. It was proposed that Zr-SBA-15 cataly...