Methane adsorption and methanol desorption of copper modified boron silicate

Xueting Wang; Alexander Shishkin; Felix Hemmingsson; Magnus Skoglundh; Francisco Javier Martinez-Casado; Lorenz Bock; Alexander Idström; Lars Nordstierna; Hanna Härelind; Per-Anders Carlsson

doi:10.1039/c8ra08038k

Methane adsorption and methanol desorption of copper modified boron silicate

RSC Adv. 2018 Oct 26;8(63):36369-36374. doi: 10.1039/c8ra08038k. eCollection 2018 Oct 22.

Authors

Xueting Wang^{1

2}, Alexander Shishkin^{1

2}, Felix Hemmingsson^{1

2}, Magnus Skoglundh^{1

2}, Francisco Javier Martinez-Casado³, Lorenz Bock¹, Alexander Idström¹, Lars Nordstierna¹, Hanna Härelind^{1

2}, Per-Anders Carlsson^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology 412 96 Gothenburg Sweden per-anders.carlsson@chalmers.se.
² Competence Centre for Catalysis, Chalmers University of Technology 412 96 Gothenburg Sweden.
³ MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University 221 00 Lund Sweden.

Abstract

Boron silicate (BS) with a chabazite framework structure was synthesised using a direct route and rigorously characterized before it was ion-exchanged with copper to form Cu-BS. Employing in situ infrared spectroscopy, we show that Cu-BS is capable of oxidising methane to methoxy species and methanol interacts with the boron sites without deprotonation.