Microporous Crystalline γ-Al2 O3 Replicated from Microporous Covalent Triazine Framework and Its Application as
Miao Zhang1,2, Lin Liu1, Teng He1
1Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Significant progress has been made on the synthesis and application of mesoporous γ-alumina. To date, little attention has been paid to the synthesis of microporous crystalline alumina. Here, fabrication of microporous crystalline γ-alumina using a microporous covalent triazine framework (CTF-1) as a template is described. Microporous crystalline γ-alumina with a micro-meso binary pore system was replicated by infiltration of aluminum nitrate into the micropores of the CTF-1 template through a NH3 /water-vapor-induced internal hydrolysis method, followed by thermal treatment, and subsequent removal of the CTF-1 template with a 30 % H2 O2 aqueous solution. The obtained crystalline γ-alumina material exhibits a large surface area (349 m2 g-1 ) with micropore distribution centered at about 1.27 nm. Ru supported on microporous γ-Al2 O3 can be employed as catalyst for hydrolytic dehydrogenation of ammonia borane, and it exhibits high catalytic activity and good durability. This finding provides a new benchmark for preparing well-defined crystalline microporous alumina materials by a template method, which can be applied in a wide range of fields.
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