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Huanting Wang1, Brett A Holmberg, Yushan Yan
1Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|August 14, 2003
Abstract:
A simple effective strategy was developed by using thermoreversible polymer hydrogels as space-confining nanoreactors to control zeolite nucleation and growth. In particular, the synthesis of zeolite 4A nanocrystals 20-180 nm in size and zeolite X nanocrystals 10-100 nm in size from template-free precursor solution was demonstrated. The synthesized zeolite nanocrystals exhibit good dispersibility, as evidenced by dynamic light-scattering measurements.

