MICRO AND MESOPOROUS NITROGEN-DOPED CARBON AND SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION FOR CO2 CAPTURE

摘要

The effect of increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration onnglobal climate change is recognized as one of the most importantnenvironmental issues facing society today.1 The levels of CO2 in thenatmosphere have reached daily averages of 400 ppmv at Mauna Loanobservatory as of May 2013, an increase of over 100 ppmv from thenpre-industrial era. Although amine-based absorption is the currentnstate-of-the-art technology for capturing CO2, it is not clear thatnabsorption technologies alone will lead to the cost reductionsnrequired to achieve a gigaton-scale solution to CO2 emissions. Fornthis reason, adsorption technologies have been a major focus ofnrecent research and development.