Upper Critical Solution Temperature-Type Responsive Cyclodextrins with Characteristic Inclusion Abilities.

Water-soluble and thermoresponsive macrocycles with stable inclusion toward guests are highly valuable to construct stimuli-responsive supramolecular materials for versatile applications. Here, we develop such macrocycles - ureido-substituted cyclodextrins (CDs) which exhibit unprecedented upper critical solution temperature (UCST) behavior in aqueous media. These novel CD derivatives showed good solubility in water at elevated temperature, but collapsed from water to form large coacervates upon cooling to low temperature.

Capturing CO2 into the precipitate of a phase-changing solvent after absorption.

The major drawback of aqueous alkanolamine-based CO2 capture processes is the high energy penalty for regeneration. To overcome this weakness, we studied the absorption of CO2 with amines dissolved in nonaqueous solvents. It was observed that triethylenetetramine (TETA) dissolved in ethanol produces a solid precipitate after absorption, which can then be easily separated and regenerated.

Adsorption of carbon dioxide by MIL-101(Cr): regeneration conditions and influence of flue gas contaminants.

MIL-101(Cr) has drawn much attention due to its high stability compared with other metal-organic frameworks. In this study, three trace flue gas contaminants (H2O, NO, SO2) were each added to a 10 vol% CO2/N2 feed flow and found to have a minimal impact on the adsorption capacity of CO2. In dynamic CO2 regeneration experiments, complete regeneration occurred in 10 min at 328 K for temperature swing adsorption-N2-stripping under a 50 cm(3)/min N2 flow and at 348 K for vacuum-temperature swing adsorption at 20 KPa.