The Current Understanding of Mechanistic Pathways in Zeolite Crystallization

AJ Mallette, K Shilpa, JD Rimer - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Zeolite catalysts and adsorbents have been an integral part of many commercial processes
and are projected to play a significant role in emerging technologies to address the …

Mechanism of zeolites crystal growth: new findings and open questions

J Grand, H Awala, S Mintova - CrystEngComm, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper will review the crystal growth mechanism of zeolites and discuss some of the
latest findings in this field. A great effort has been dedicated in recent years to improving the …

In situ imaging of silicalite-1 surface growth reveals the mechanism of crystallization

AI Lupulescu, JD Rimer - Science, 2014 - science.org
The growth mechanism of silicalite-1 (MFI zeolite) is juxtaposed between classical models
that postulate silica molecules as primary growth units and nonclassical pathways based on …

Hierarchical nanofabrication of microporous crystals with ordered mesoporosity

W Fan, MA Snyder, S Kumar, PS Lee, WC Yoo… - Nature materials, 2008 - nature.com
Shaped zeolite nanocrystals and larger zeolite particles with three-dimensionally ordered
mesoporous (3DOm) features hold exciting technological implications for manufacturing …

Mechanistic principles of nanoparticle evolution to zeolite crystals

TM Davis, TO Drews, H Ramanan, C He, J Dong… - Nature materials, 2006 - nature.com
Precursor nanoparticles that form spontaneously on hydrolysis of tetraethylorthosilicate in
aqueous solutions of tetrapropylammonium (TPA) hydroxide evolve to TPA-silicalite-1, a …

Hierarchical nanomanufacturing: from shaped zeolite nanoparticles to high‐performance separation membranes

MA Snyder, M Tsapatsis - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Despite more than a decade of intense research on the high‐resolution selectivity of thin
zeolite films as alternatives to energy‐intensive industrial separations, membranes …

Epitaxial growth of ZSM-5@ Silicalite-1: A core–shell zeolite designed with passivated surface acidity

A Ghorbanpour, A Gumidyala, LC Grabow… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The design of materials with spatially controlled chemical composition has potential
advantages for wide-reaching applications that span energy to medicine. Here, we present a …

Fluctuation microscopy: a probe of medium range order

MMJ Treacy, JM Gibson, L Fan… - Reports on Progress …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
Fluctuation microscopy is a hybrid diffraction-imaging technique that detects medium range
order in amorphous materials by examining spatial fluctuations in coherent scattering. These …

Thermochemistry of microporous and mesoporous materials

A Navrotsky, O Trofymluk, AA Levchenko - Chemical Reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
The past two decades have seen exciting advances in the discovery, improved synthesis,
processing, and molecularlevel engineering of new inorganic materials having specialized …

Synthesis of zeolites in the absence of organic structure-directing agents: factors governing crystal selection and polymorphism

MD Oleksiak, JD Rimer - Reviews in Chemical Engineering, 2014 - degruyter.com
Organic structure-directing agents (OSDAs) are commonly avoided in commercial zeolite
synthesis because of the economic and environmental disadvantages associated with the …