Zeolites with continuously tuneable porosity
Date
24/11/2014Author
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Abstract
Zeolites are important materials whose utility in industry depends on the nature of their porous structure. Control over microporosity is therefore a vitally important target. Unfortunately, traditional methods for controlling porosity, in particular the use of organic structure-directing agents, are relatively coarse and provide almost no opportunity to tune the porosity as required. Here we show how zeolites with a continuously tuneable surface area and micropore volume over a wide range can be prepared. This means that a particular surface area or micropore volume can be precisely tuned. The range of porosity we can target covers the whole range of useful zeolite porosity: from small pores consisting of 8-rings all the way to extra-large pores consisting of 14-rings.
Citation
Wheatley , P S , Chlubná-Eliášová , P , Greer , H , Zhou , W , Seymour , V R , Dawson , D M , Ashbrook , S E , Pinar , A B , McCusker , L B , Opanasenko , M , Cejka , J & Morris , R E 2014 , ' Zeolites with continuously tuneable porosity ' , Angewandte Chemie , vol. 126 , no. 48 , pp. 13426-13430 . https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.201407676
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Angewandte Chemie
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Peer reviewed
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0044-8249Type
Journal article
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© 2014 The Authors. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Funding: Royal Society for provision of an industry fellowship and the EPSRC for funding (EP/K025112/1 and EP/L014475/1) (R.E.M.); Czech Science Foundation for (P106/12/G015) (J.Cˇ.); European Community under a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (A.B.P.).Collections
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