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Huan Wang1, Guo Du1, Shaohua Chen1
1Institute of New Catalytic Materials Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (MOE), Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, PR China.
Abstract:
As an important heterogeneous catalyst, Titanium Silicalite-1 (TS-1) zeolite has been widely applied in various catalytic processes. Here, hierarchical TS-1 single-crystals were successfully synthesized by a steam-assisted crystallization strategy using hierarchically porous titanium-containing silica (Ti-NKM-5) as a precursor. Due to the presence of large mesopores (10-40 nm)， the microporous structure-directing agents penetrated the interstitial structure of silica particles, inducing the dissolution and crystallization process. During crystallization, the generated nanocrystals grew together to form a hierarchical structure. Titanium was fully incorporated into the zeolite framework, and no extra-framework anatase was formed. Compared with the traditional microporous TS-1 zeolite, the synthesized hierarchical TS-1 single-crystal exhibited superior catalytic performance in oxidative desulfurization (ODS) of dibenzothiophene (DBT) and 4, 6-dimethyl dibenzothiophene (4, 6-DMDBT) owing to the hierarchically porous and anatase-free structure. The recycling test revealed the durability of the obtained hierarchical TS-1 catalyst under moderate reaction conditions.
