Iron-doping Enhanced Basic Nickel Carbonate for Moisture Resistance and Catalytic Performance of Ozone Decomposition

doi:10.15541/jim20210127

Abstract

Abstract:

Ozone pollution is taking more dominant position in China than PM2.5, traditional ozonolysis catalytic materials have limited performance in humid conditions. In this study, an iron-doped basic nickel carbonate catalyst (NiCH-Fe) was successfully fabricated via a facile hydrothermal method, which could stably decompose 2.14 μg/L ozone at 60% relative humidity for 12 h with nearly 100% removal ratio. The result of the Quartz Crystal Microbalance test showed that the water molecules adsorbed on the surface of NiCH-Fe were significantly reduced as compared with that adsorbed on pure NiCH, which were favorable for the competitive adsorption of ozone. Density functional theory results proved that Fe atoms were new sites instead of Ni atoms and had stronger adsorption capacity for ozone molecules. In addition, the XPS results demonstrated that the iron atoms serving as active sites were substantially stable in the reaction. Therefore, material doped with Fe provided excellent moisture resistance and long-term stability. This work provides an effective technical method for the development of materials with high moisture resistance ability for efficient ozone catalytic decomposition.

Key words: basic nickel carbonate, doping, ozone decomposition, moisture resistance

CLC Number:

TQ174

LI Bangxin, ZHANG Qian, XIAO Jie, XIAO Wenyan, ZHOU Ying. Iron-doping Enhanced Basic Nickel Carbonate for Moisture Resistance and Catalytic Performance of Ozone Decomposition[J]. Journal of Inorganic Materials, 2022, 37(1): 45-50.

Figures/Tables 9

Fig. 1 XRD patterns of NiCH and NiCH-Fe

Fig. 2 (a) SEM image of NiCH-Fe5% and corresponding EDS mappings of (b) Ni and (c) Fe elements, TEM images of (d) NiCH and (e) NiCH-Fe5%, and (f) HRTEM image of NiCH-Fe5%

Fig. 3 (a) Nitrogen adsorption-desorption isotherms and (b) pore size distributions of NiCH, NiCH-Fe and FeCH

Fig. 4 Ozone removal rates of (a) NiCH-Fe with different Fe dopants at 60%RH and (b) NiCH-Fe5% at 60%, 70%, 80%RH

Fig. 5 Long time ozone removal tests of NiCH-Fe5% and MnO2

Fig. 6 XPS spectra of (a) Ni2p3/2 and (b) Fe2p of NiCH-Fe5% before and after reaction

Fig. 7 Surface water adsorption curves of NiCH and NiCH- Fe5%

Fig. 8 Single-layer structure of NiCH-Fe

Table 1 Adsorption energy of ozone and H2O on different sites of NiCH and NiCH-Fe5%

Molecule	Site	NiCH	NiCH-Fe
O₃	Ni	-0.36 eV	-0.57 eV
	Fe(Ni)	-0.02 eV(Ni)	-1.93eV(Fe)
	O1	-0.28 eV	-0.61 eV
	O2	-0.69 eV	-0.46 eV
H₂O	Ni	-0.15 eV	-0.41 eV
H₂O	Fe(Ni)	-0.24 eV(Ni)	-0.55 eV(Fe)

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