Issue 31, 2012

Polyacrylonitrile/polybenzoxazine-based Fe3O4@carbon nanofibers: hierarchical porous structure and magnetic adsorption property

Abstract

Hierarchical porous, magnetic Fe3O4@carbon nanofibers (Fe3O4@CNFs) comprising graphitic nanofibers and embedded Fe3O4 nanocrystals were prepared by using electrospun polyacrylonitrile/polybenzoxazine (PBZ) nanofibers as composite carbon precursor. By the combination of precursor design and activation process, a series of Fe3O4@CNFs with a tunable porous structure including the surface area, pore volume and micro/mesopore ratio were obtained, and could achieve an extremely high surface area of 1623 m2 g−1 and a pore volume of 1.635 cm3 g−1. Quantitative pore size distribution and fractal analysis were employed to investigate the hierarchical porous structure using N2 adsorption methods and synchrotron radiation small-angle X-ray scattering measurements. The role of the precursor structure and activation treatment for the tuning of the porous structure and surface fractal dimension is discussed, and the relative fraction of closed and open pores in CNFs is confirmed. Furthermore, the as-prepared Fe3O4@CNFs exhibit efficient adsorption for organic dyes in water and excellent magnetic separation performance, which would make them a promising adsorbent for water treatment, and a new insight was also provided into the design and development of functional carbon nanomaterials based on PBZ precursor.

Graphical abstract: Polyacrylonitrile/polybenzoxazine-based Fe3O4@carbon nanofibers: hierarchical porous structure and magnetic adsorption property

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
20 May 2012
Accepted
19 Jun 2012
First published
20 Jun 2012

J. Mater. Chem., 2012,22, 15919-15927

Polyacrylonitrile/polybenzoxazine-based Fe3O4@carbon nanofibers: hierarchical porous structure and magnetic adsorption property

T. Ren, Y. Si, J. Yang, B. Ding, X. Yang, F. Hong and J. Yu, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 15919 DOI: 10.1039/C2JM33214K

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Spotlight

Advertisements