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  • Materials Science
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Computational Chemistry

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  • Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a major greenhouse gas with significant environmental impacts.
  • CO2 is also a valuable chemical feedstock for producing carbon-based fuels.
  • Efficient and reversible CO2 capture requires materials with balanced adsorption and desorption properties.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate metal-embedded carbon nitride (C2N) nanosheets as novel materials for CO2 capture.
  • To systematically study the CO2 adsorption behavior of various metal-embedded C2N structures.
  • To identify the most promising material for efficient and reversible CO2 capture and utilization.

Main Methods:

  • First-principles calculations were employed to study the structural and electronic properties of metal-embedded C2N.
  • Grand Canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations were used to assess CO2 adsorption capacities.
  • The adsorption and desorption characteristics of CO2 on different metal-embedded C2N materials were analyzed.

Main Results:

  • Calcium (Ca) atoms were found to embed uniformly in the C2N cavity center.
  • Transition metals (Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co) preferentially embedded off-center in the C2N structure.
  • Ca-embedded C2N exhibited the highest CO2 physisorption capacity among the studied materials.
  • GCMC simulations showed Ca-embedded C2N achieving 50 wt% CO2 uptake at 30 bar and 23 wt% at 1 bar at room temperature.

Conclusions:

  • Ca-embedded C2N is a highly promising material for CO2 capture due to its strong adsorption capabilities.
  • The high gravimetric density of CO2 adsorbed on Ca-embedded C2N surpasses other layered materials.
  • This material offers a satisfactory system for CO2 capture and subsequent utilization.