Title
Optimization of permanently polarized hydroxyapatite catalyst. Implications for the electrophotosynthesis of amino acids by nitrogen and carbon fixation
Date Issued
01 May 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Publisher(s)
Academic Press Inc.
Abstract
The enhanced catalytic activity of permanently polarized hydroxyapatite, which is achieved using a thermally stimulated polarization process, largely depends on both the experimental conditions used to prepare crystalline hydroxyapatite from its calcium and phosphate precursors and the polarization process parameters. A mineral similar to brushite, which is an apatitic phase that can evolve to hydroxyapatite, is found at the surface of highly crystalline hydroxyapatite. It appears after chemical precipitation and hydrothermal treatment performed at 150 °C for 24 h followed by a sinterization at 1000 °C and a polarization treatment by applying a voltage of 500 V at high temperature. Both the high crystallinity and the presence of brushite-like phase on the electrophotocatalyst affect the nitrogen and carbon fixation under mild reaction conditions (95 °C and 6 bar) and the synthesis of glycine and alanine from a simple gas mixture containing N2, CO2, CH4 and H2O. Thus, the Gly/Ala ratio can be customized by controlling the presence of brushite on the surface of the catalyst, enabling to develop new strategies to regulate the production of amino acids by nitrogen and carbon fixation.
Start page
98
End page
107
Volume
397
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería química
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85104076606
Source
Journal of Catalysis
ISSN of the container
00219517
Sponsor(s)
Authors acknowledge MINECO-FEDER (RTI2018-098951-B-I00 and RTI2018-101827-B-I00), Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca ( 2017SGR359 and 2017SGR373 ) and B. Braun Surgical, S.A.U and B. Braun Melsungen AG for financial support. Support for the research of C.A. was received through the prize “ICREA Academia” for excellence in research funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya. Special thanks to Dr. Meinrad Lugan and Dr. Hans-Otto Maier for their support to the project.
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