ABSTRACT
It is well-known that the large scale usage of fossil fuel (coal, petroleum, natgas
et.al) can lead to the sharp increase of green gases, which are mainly consisted of CO2,
and can induce many problems, such as greenhouse effect, melting polar ice, sea level
rise and the change of species and so on. Hence, the capture, storage and recycling of
CO2 have arisen much attention of many countries. Among lots of methods, the method,
photocatalytic reduction of CO2 via converting CO2 into hydrocarbon under solar light
irradiation, not only decrease the amount of CO2, but also solve the energy crisis, which
has been attracted the focus of many research scientists.
As covalent compound, CO2 has a very stable structure. Therefore, the reduction of
CO2 requires extra supplement of energy. Photocatalytic reduction of CO2 employs solar
energy as the energy supplement, and the major process is the preparation of efficient
photocatalyst. Mesoporous materials with high specific surface area, large pore volume
and open structure of pore can be potentially used in the field of CO2 adsorption and
CO2 photocatalytic reduction. But, the ordinary silicon-based mesoporous materials
with few active sites and are not suitably used as catalysts directly. So, the synthesis of
new type mesoporous materials for photocatalyst is attracted much attention. Compared
to silicon-baced mesoporous materials, new type non-silicon baced mesoporous
materials have researched for a short time and preparation method is not perfect. Hence,
the preparation of new type mesoporous materials and its potential application need
advanced research. So, after consulting a large number of papers, we chose non-silicon
mesoporous materials as our object of study, including the study of metallic oxide
mesoporous materials and non-metallic polymer mesopporous materials. The thesis
composes four chaptures.
Chapter 1 briefly describe the development, classification, preparation method of
mesoporous materials and their application. Also, the mechanism and application of
photocatalytic reduction of CO2 over mesoporous materials are introduced.
Chapter 2 recommends the preparation, characterization and CO2 reduction under
UV light of Cr-doped mesoporous CeO2. In this chapter, Cr-doped mesoporous CeO2
were synthesized via nanocasting method, using metal nitrates and SBA-15 as
precursors and hard-template, respectively. Techniques including XRD, N2 adsorption-
desorption, UV-Vis DRS and TEM-HRTEM were used to characterize the
physicochemical property of as-prepared mesoporous materials. The photocatalytic
reduction activity of CO2 over Cr-doped mesoporous CeO2 was also conducted. The
results demonstrated that all mesoporous materials exhibited perfect 2D structure, high
specific surface area and uniform pore diameter. With increasing the molar content of
Cr to 15%, the photocatalyst (Mes-CrCN-15) exhibited the high photocatalytic
reduction activity of CO2 and the yield mount of CO and CH4 were 2700 μmol and 1400
μmol respectively after 7 h illumination.