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Synthesis of Zeolites Using the ADOR Assembly-Disassembly-Organization-Reassembly Route
Published on: April 3, 2016
Zeosil Nanoslabs: Building Blocks in nPr4 N+ -Mediated Synthesis of MFI Zeolite
Christine E A Kirschhock1, Véronique Buschmann2, Sebastien Kremer1
1Department of Interface Chemistry, K.U. Leuven Kasteelpark Arenberg 23, 3001 Leuven (Belgium) Fax: (+32) 16-321998.
Abstract:
Tetrapropylammonium (TPA)-containing precursors are the building blocks in the crystallization of silica. In the first steps slab-shaped silicalite nanoparticles are formed by ordered combination of the precursors. These nanoslabs have MFI-type zeolite framework topology and play a key role in TPA-ion-mediated zeolite crystallization from monomeric and polymeric silica sources.
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