eprintid: 13360 rev_number: 2 eprint_status: archive userid: 1 dir: disk0/00/01/33/60 datestamp: 2023-11-10 03:27:55 lastmod: 2023-11-10 03:27:55 status_changed: 2023-11-10 01:50:58 type: conference_item metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Lee, X.Y. creators_name: Chew, T.L. creators_name: Oh, P.C. creators_name: Jawad, Z.A. creators_name: Ho, C.D. title: Synthesis and characterization of MSU-2 synthesized by using tetraethylorthosilicate and Triton X-100 ispublished: pub note: cited By 1; Conference of Energy Security and Chemical Engineering Congress 2019, ESChE 2019 ; Conference Date: 17 July 2019 Through 19 July 2019; Conference Code:158114 abstract: Adsorption technology is one of the well-established gas separation techniques as it can minimize cost and energy requirement for CO2 separation. Mesoporous silicas such as MSU-2 appears to be a good adsorbent as it comprises of three-dimensional (3D) wormhole framework structures that are highly interconnected which minimize the diffusion resistance of CO2 through its pore structure. Current study focus on the preparation of MSU-2 and investigation on the CO2 adsorption on the synthesized MSU-2. In this study, MSU-2 was prepared by using tetraethylorthosilica (TEOS) as a source of silica in the presence of non- ionic polyethyleneoxide (PEO)-based surfactants under an acidic condition where the pH is 2 at 55 °C for 48 hours via the fluoride-assisted two-step synthesis process. The two main steps involved are hydrolysis of TEOS and condensation of silica. The morphology, crystallinity, functional groups and pore characteristics of MSU-2 were investigated by using characterization method of Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM), Energy Dispersive X-Ray (EDX) Spectrometry, X-ray Diffractometer (XRD), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET). The synthesized MSU-2 was well crystallized and possessed a uniform monodisperse microspherical morphology with BET surface area, pore volume and pore size of 964 m2/g, 0.98 cm3/g and 4.1 nm, respectively. All the characterization results showed that MSU-2 was successfully synthesized via solution precipitation method. In conclusion, the high BET surface area of the synthesized MSU-2 shows that MSU-2 is a very potential candidate as a good adsorbent for gases. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. date: 2020 publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85081357861&doi=10.1088%2f1757-899X%2f736%2f4%2f042026&partnerID=40&md5=e3b71fdf47e92597ab939d5b55bd9c67 id_number: 10.1088/1757-899X/736/4/042026 full_text_status: none publication: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering volume: 736 number: 4 refereed: TRUE issn: 17578981 citation: Lee, X.Y. and Chew, T.L. and Oh, P.C. and Jawad, Z.A. and Ho, C.D. (2020) Synthesis and characterization of MSU-2 synthesized by using tetraethylorthosilicate and Triton X-100. In: UNSPECIFIED.