• Journal of Inorganic Materials
  • Vol. 38, Issue 10, 1237 (2023)
Jieyan DAI1、2, Aihu FENG2、*, Le MI2, Yang YU2, Yuanyuan CUI3, and Yun YU1、2、*
Author Affiliations
  • 11. College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
  • 22. Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201899, China
  • 33. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China
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    DOI: 10.15541/jim20230095 Cite this Article
    Jieyan DAI, Aihu FENG, Le MI, Yang YU, Yuanyuan CUI, Yun YU. Adsorption Mechanism of NaY Zeolite Molecular Adsorber Coating on Typical Space Contaminations[J]. Journal of Inorganic Materials, 2023, 38(10): 1237 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    In a high vacuum environment, some organic molecular pollutants such as hydrocarbon and siloxane are released by spacecraft materials and deposited on the surface of the sensitive parts of spacecraft devices, which has become an important adverse factor restricting the development of long-life and high-performance spacecraft. Zeolite molecular adsorber coating can effectively collect spatial contaminations in real time, but the adsorption mechanism is not clear. To deeply analyze the adsorption mechanism of zeolite on the spatial contaminations, the adsorption behaviors of NaY zeolite including adsorption isotherms, adsorption heat curves and density distributions on three typical contaminations, toluene(C7H8), dimethyl phthalate (C10H10O4), octamethyl cyclotetrasiloxane (C8H24O4Si4), were calculated by the Grand Canonical Monte Carlo method in this work. The NaY zeolites and pollutant models were successfully constructed, and the rationality of the models was verified by comparing simulated data with experimental ones. These results indicated that all three classic molecules can be adsorbed by NaY zeolite in the ultra-high vacuum condition. The saturated adsorption capacity decreases in the order of C7H8>C10H10O4>C8H24O4Si4, which is significantly related to the molecule sizes and structures of contaminations. The saturated adsorption amount of C8H24O4Si4 is relatively low (8 per cell) when that of C7H8 is 36 per cell. In addition, the density distributions indicates that different contaminations are preferentially adsorbed inside the super-cage of NaY zeolite. Overall, this work analyzes the adsorption mechanism of NaY zeolite on typical contaminations, and can provide basic insights for the development of zeolite molecular adsorber coating with high adsorption capacity.
    $U({{r}_{ij}})=4{{\varepsilon }_{ij}}\times \left[ {{\left( \frac{{{\sigma }_{ij}}}{{{r}_{ij}}} \right)}^{12}}-{{\left( \frac{{{\sigma }_{ij}}}{{{r}_{ij}}} \right)}^{6}} \right]+\frac{{{q}_{i}}{{q}_{j}}}{4\pi {{\varepsilon }_{0}}{{r}_{ij}}}$

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    Jieyan DAI, Aihu FENG, Le MI, Yang YU, Yuanyuan CUI, Yun YU. Adsorption Mechanism of NaY Zeolite Molecular Adsorber Coating on Typical Space Contaminations[J]. Journal of Inorganic Materials, 2023, 38(10): 1237
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