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  • Materials Science
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Thermodynamics

Background:

  • Zeolite design often focuses on energy-based structure regulation.
  • Controlled disorder in zeolites can enhance mass transfer properties.
  • Entropy's role in zeolite formation, particularly disorder, is underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and investigate an entropy strategy for zeolite design.
  • To control the formation of disordered and intergrown zeolite structures.
  • To explore the impact of translational and rotational confinement of OSDAs.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing an entropy strategy by enhancing confinement of large organic structure-directing agents (OSDAs).
  • Quantifying free energy changes associated with the entropy strategy.
  • Analyzing the resulting zeolite structures for disorder and intergrowth.

Main Results:

  • Achieved an order of magnitude larger change in free energy (1.8 kJ/mol SiO2) compared to enthalpy effects.
  • Successfully promoted compensation in the configurational entropy of zeolite structures.
  • Led to the formation of highly disordered intergrown zeolites, such as ITH/ITR and MFI/MEL.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed entropy strategy offers a novel perspective for intergrowing zeolites.
  • This approach provides guidance for understanding the microscopic mechanisms of zeolite skeleton formation.
  • Highlights the potential for creating highly disordered porous materials through entropy control.