Avaliação do efeito das rotas sintéticas de materiais mesoporosos nas propriedades estruturais e morfológicas

Abstract

The mesoporous materials like MCM-41apresentam hexagonal arrangement of mesopores with pore diameter from 2 to 10 nm and high surface area. Due to these characteristics, these materials are considered promising as support for heterogeneous catalysts, devices for controlled drug release and absorption. In this work, were synthesized mesoporous materials like MCM-41 via two synthesis routes in order to correlate the synthetic route to the surface area, assess their influence on the structural and morphological properties, and their respective application as dye adsorbent textiles. For both synthesis routes were used as precursors of silica gel, sodium silicate, water and cetyltrimethylammonium chloride (CTMABr), as an agent-driver structure. In the first synthesis route the materials were obtained by hydrothermal method with different temperatures (ambient 70 ° C and 100 ° C) and aging times (2h, 2 4h, 48h and 72h), with pH adjustment and every 24 hours calcinations at 550 ° C/4h. In the second synthesis route, we adopted the aging temperature environment and different times of crystallization (, 24h, 48h and 72h), no pH adjustment of the reaction medium and calcinations was performed at 550 ° C/6h. The MCM-41 was analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetric analysis (TG, DTA and DTG), and absorption spectroscopy in the infrared (IR) and nitrogen adsorption (BET method - Brunauer-Emmett-Teller). Through the analysis of XRD, TG, IR and nitrogen adsorption showed that the calcination conditions were promising agent for the removal of driver structure and the optimization of routes allowed for the synthesis of MCM-41 with a shorter time and temperature aging, expected in the literature. However, it was not possible to establish a relationship between time, temperature and aging structural ordering of MCM-41. In addition, the test results of the use of MCM-41 as an adsorbent textile dye showed a higher adsorption of the dye Orange-16, for not calcined sample as compared to calcined sample at room temperature, confirming the promising application in the treatment of waste textiles.