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      Dual template-directed synthesis of SAPO-34 nanosheet assemblies with improved stability in the methanol to olefins reaction

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          Hierarchical SAPO-34 catalysts with different morphologies were synthesized by using dual template [3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl]octadecyldimethylammonium chloride and diethylamine. Because of its optimal porosity and acidity, hierarchical SAPO-34 exhibited excellent catalytic performance in the MTO reaction.

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          A spherical self-assembly of SAPO-34 nanosheets was hydrothermally synthesized by using a quaternary ammonium-type organosilane surfactant [3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl]octadecyldimethylammonium chloride (TPOAC) as the mesoporogen and a part of the silica source, and diethylamine (DEA) as the microporous template. The prepared materials were well characterized by XRD, XRF, SEM, TEM, N 2 adsorption–desorption, NH 3-TPD, NH 3-adsorbed IR and pyridine-adsorbed IR measurements. It revealed that the morphologies, compositions and acidity of the SAPO-34 products changed significantly with the increased TPOAC/TEOS ratio, showing that the TPOAC/TEOS ratio had a significant impact on the crystallization process of SAPO-34. Solid state 13C, 29Si NMR and TG-DTA analyses were further conducted to investigate the status of TPOAC in the final products. A possible crystallization process involving TPOAC was proposed. The catalytic performances of the synthesized SAPO-34s were evaluated using the MTO reaction. The optimal SAPO-34 nanosheet assemblies with a hierarchical porous structure displayed a remarkably enhanced catalytic lifetime and high yields of light olefins.

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          Stable single-unit-cell nanosheets of zeolite MFI as active and long-lived catalysts.

          Minkee Choi, Kyungsu Na, Jeongnam Kim … (2009)
          Zeolites-microporous crystalline aluminosilicates-are widely used in petrochemistry and fine-chemical synthesis because strong acid sites within their uniform micropores enable size- and shape-selective catalysis. But the very presence of the micropores, with aperture diameters below 1 nm, often goes hand-in-hand with diffusion limitations that adversely affect catalytic activity. The problem can be overcome by reducing the thickness of the zeolite crystals, which reduces diffusion path lengths and thus improves molecular diffusion. This has been realized by synthesizing zeolite nanocrystals, by exfoliating layered zeolites, and by introducing mesopores in the microporous material through templating strategies or demetallation processes. But except for the exfoliation, none of these strategies has produced 'ultrathin' zeolites with thicknesses below 5 nm. Here we show that appropriately designed bifunctional surfactants can direct the formation of zeolite structures on the mesoporous and microporous length scales simultaneously and thus yield MFI (ZSM-5, one of the most important catalysts in the petrochemical industry) zeolite nanosheets that are only 2 nm thick, which corresponds to the b-axis dimension of a single MFI unit cell. The large number of acid sites on the external surface of these zeolites renders them highly active for the catalytic conversion of large organic molecules, and the reduced crystal thickness facilitates diffusion and thereby dramatically suppresses catalyst deactivation through coke deposition during methanol-to-gasoline conversion. We expect that our synthesis approach could be applied to other zeolites to improve their performance in a range of important catalytic applications.
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            Amphiphilic organosilane-directed synthesis of crystalline zeolite with tunable mesoporosity.

            Rajendra Srivastava, Chi H. Cho, C Venkatesan … (2006)
            Zeolites are a family of crystalline aluminosilicate materials widely used as shape-selective catalysts, ion exchange materials, and adsorbents for organic compounds. In the present work, zeolites were synthesized by adding a rationally designed amphiphilic organosilane surfactant to conventional alkaline zeolite synthesis mixtures. The zeolite products were characterized by a complementary combination of X-ray diffraction (XRD), nitrogen sorption, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The analyses show that the present method is suitable as a direct synthesis route to highly mesoporous zeolites. The mesopore diameters could be uniformly tailored, similar to ordered mesoporous silica with amorphous frameworks. The mesoporous zeolite exhibited a narrow, small-angle XRD peak, which is characteristic of the short-range correlation between mesopores, similar to disordered wormhole-like mesoporous materials. The XRD patterns and electron micrographs of the samples taken during crystallization clearly showed the evolution of the mesoporous structure concomitantly to the crystallization of zeolite frameworks. The synthesis of the crystalline aluminosilicate materials with tunable mesoporosity and strong acidity has potentially important technological implications for catalytic reactions of large molecules, whereas conventional mesoporous materials lack hydrothermal stability and acidity.
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              The mechanism of methanol to hydrocarbon catalysis.

              Weiguo Song, Warren D Marcus, J Haw … (2003)
              The process of converting methanol to hydrocarbons on the aluminosilicate zeolite HZSM-5 was originally developed as a route from natural gas to synthetic gasoline. Using other microporous catalysts that are selective for light olefins, methanol-to-olefin (MTO) catalysis may soon become central to the conversion of natural gas to polyolefins. The mechanism of methanol conversion proved to be an intellectually challenging problem; 25 years of fundamental study produced at least 20 distinct mechanisms, but most did not account for either the primary products or a kinetic induction period. Recent experimental and theoretical work has firmly established that methanol and dimethyl ether react on cyclic organic species contained in the cages or channels of the inorganic host. These organic reaction centers act as scaffolds for the assembly of light olefins so as to avoid the high high-energy intermediates required by all "direct" mechanisms. The rate of formation of the initial reaction centers, and hence the duration of the kinetic induction period, can be governed by impurity species. Secondary reactions of primary olefin products strongly reflect the topology and acid strength of the microporous catalyst. Reaction centers form continuously through some secondary pathways, and they age into polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, eventually deactivating the catalyst. It proves useful to consider each cage (or channel) with its included organic and inorganic species as a supramolecule that can react to form various species. This view allows us to identify structure-activity and structure selectivity relationships and to modify the catalyst with degrees of freedom that are more reminiscent of homogeneous catalysis than heterogeneous catalysis.
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                Journal ID (publisher-id): JMCAET
                Title: Journal of Materials Chemistry A
                Abbreviated Title: J. Mater. Chem. A
                Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
                ISSN (Print): 2050-7488
                ISSN (Electronic): 2050-7496
                Publication date Created: 2015
                Publication date (Electronic): 2015
                Volume: 3
                Issue: 10
                Pages: 5608-5616
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy
                [2 ]Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
                [3 ]Chinese Academy of Sciences
                [4 ]Dalian
                [5 ]P. R. China
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                DOI: 10.1039/C4TA06124A
                SO-VID: 6b2f0016-ae35-4739-a63d-2784179e210d
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