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HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS AND CRYSTALLIZATION OF ZEOLITES. Typical zeolite synthesis NaAl(OH) 4 (aq) + Na 2 SiO 3 (aq) + NaOH(aq), 25 o C, condensation-polymerization, Na(H 2 O) n + template
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HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS AND CRYSTALLIZATION OF ZEOLITES • Typical zeolite synthesis • NaAl(OH)4(aq) + Na2SiO3(aq) + NaOH(aq), 25oC, condensation-polymerization, Na(H2O)n+ template • Naa(AlO2)b(SiO2)c.NaOH.H2O(gel) 25-175oC, hydrothermal crystallization of amorphous gel • Nax(AlO2)x(SiO2)y.zH2O(crystals)
HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS AND CRYSTALLIZATION OF ZEOLITES • Nax(AlO2)x(SiO2)y.zH2O(crystals) • Extraframework charge-balancing cations, templates, ion-exchangeable • Framework Al(III)O4 and Si(IV)O4 tetrahedral primary building-blocks • (AlO2)- and SiO2 stoichiometry for building blocks as bridging O • Occluded water, removed by 25-500oC vacuum thermal dehydration • Organic cationic templates, quaternary alkylammonium, structure-directing, space-filling, charge-balancing, discovery of new structures
Corner sharing SiO4/AlO4 tetrahedra Cation binding site in six ring resembles crown ether-cation complex Six ring shorthand notation Mq+ ZEOLITE BUILDING UNITS SHORTHAND NOTATION
BUILDING-BLOCK APPROACH TO ZEOLITE SYNTHESIS, STRUCTURES AND PROPERTIES • Primary tetrahedral units, AlO2-, SiO2, PO2+ and so forth, combined to give open-framework and framework charge, balanced by extraframework cations • Existence of primary and secondary units in a synthesis mixture including: • 4R, 6R, 8R, D4R, D6R, 5-1, cubooctahedron
ZEOLITE POST MODIFICATION FOR CONTROLLING PROPERTIES OF ZEOLITES • Tailoring channel, cage, window dimensions, adsorbents, gas separation, purification • Tuning Brnsted acidity, hydrocarbon cracking • Ion exchange capacity, Lewis acid-base character, water softening, detergents • Size-shape selective catalysis, separations, sensing -reactant, product, transition state selectivity
ZEOLITE POST MODIFICATION FOR CONTROLLING PROPERTIES OF ZEOLITES • Host-guest inclusion, atoms, ions, molecules, radicals, organometallics, coordination compounds, clusters, polymers (conducting, insulating), nanoreaction chambers • Advanced zeolite devices, electronic, optical, magnetic applications • Entry to nanoscale materials, size tunable properties, QSEs
SHAPE SELECTIVE CATALYSIS - REACTANT, PRODUCT, TRANSITION STATE SELECTIVITY
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Shape slective dehydration of normal and iso-butanols to butenes over calcium ion exchanged zeolite A and zeolite Y
SIMPLIFIED NOTATION FOR ZEOLITE ION EXCHANGE, BRNSTED ACID SITE FORMATION AND DEALUMINATION TO HIGH SILICA ZEOLITES
The changing face of zeolite science and technology - pore and channel dimensions way beyond 1 nm - periodic table of compositions
LAYER-BY-LAYER GROWTH OF ZEOLITE THIN FILMS FOR PERMSELECTIVE MEMBRANES
Mq+ links building blocks via S binding and structure directed by Me4N+ template Ge4S104- adamantanoid building block ARCHITECTURAL CONTROL - TEMPLATE DIRECTED TRANSFORMATION OF BUILDING BLOCKS TO OPEN FRAMEWORK SOLIDS
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