Hydrophobic Porous Liquids with Controlled Cavity Size and Physico‐Chemical Properties

Autor: Lorianne Ginot, Amal El Bakkouche, Fabrice Giusti, Sandrine Dourdain, Stéphane Pellet‐Rostaing
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Advanced Science, Vol 11, Iss 4, Pp n/a-n/a (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2198-3844
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202305906
Popis: Abstract Developing greener hydrometallurgical processes implies offering alternatives to conventional solvents used for liquid‐liquid extraction (LLE) of metals. In this context, it is proposed to substitute the organic phase by a hydrophobic silica‐based porous liquid (PL). Two different sulfonated hollow silica particles (HSPs) are modified with various polyethoxylated fatty amines (EthAs) forming a canopy that provides both the targeted hydrophobicity and liquefying properties. This study shows that these properties can be tuned by varying the number of ethylene oxide units in the EthA: middle‐range molecular weight EthAs allow obtaining a liquid at room temperature, while too short or too long EthA leads to solid particles. Viscosity is also impacted by the density and size of the silica spheres: less viscous PLs are obtained with small low‐density spheres, while for larger spheres (c.a. 200 nm) the density has a less significant impact on viscosity. According to this approach, hydrophobic PLs are successfully synthesized. When contacted with an aqueous phase, the most hydrophobic PLs obtained allow a subsequent phase separation. Preliminary extraction tests on three rare earth elements have further shown that functionalization of the PL is necessary to observe metal extraction.
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