Influence of sol-gel conditioning on the cobalt phase and the hydrothermal stability of cobalt oxide silica membranes

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Funding Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge financial support provided by the Australian Government through its CRC programme to support this CO2CRC (Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies) research project. L. Liu gratefully thanks the scholarship from the University of Queensland and CO2CRC. The authors acknowledge the facilities, and the scientific and technical assistance, of the Australian Microscopy 8: Microanalysis Research Facility at the Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, the University of Queensland, The authors acknowledge Dr. Ekaterina Strounina for the NMR measurement. Raman spectroscopy was performed at the Bio-Nano Development Facility in the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, which was funded by the Queensland State Government Smart State Innovation Building Fund, J. C. Diniz da Costa gratefully thanks the support given by the ARC Future Fellowship Programme (FT130100405).