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Perea DE, Arslan I, Liu J, et al. Determining the location and nearest neighbours of aluminium in zeolites with atom probe tomography. Nat Commun. 2015;6:7589doi: 10.1038/ncomms8589.
Perea, D. E., Arslan, I., Liu, J., Ristanović, Z., Kovarik, L., Arey, B. W., Lercher, J. A., Bare, S. R., & Weckhuysen, B. M. (2015). Determining the location and nearest neighbours of aluminium in zeolites with atom probe tomography. Nature communications, 67589. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8589
Perea, Daniel E, et al. "Determining the location and nearest neighbours of aluminium in zeolites with atom probe tomography." Nature communications vol. 6 (2015): 7589. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8589
Perea DE, Arslan I, Liu J, Ristanović Z, Kovarik L, Arey BW, Lercher JA, Bare SR, Weckhuysen BM. Determining the location and nearest neighbours of aluminium in zeolites with atom probe tomography. Nat Commun. 2015 Jul 02;6:7589. doi: 10.1038/ncomms8589. PMID: 26133270; PMCID: PMC4506508.
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Nat Commun. 2015 Jul 02;6:7589. doi: 10.1038/ncomms8589.

Determining the location and nearest neighbours of aluminium in zeolites with atom probe tomography.

Nature communications

Daniel E Perea, Ilke Arslan, Jia Liu, Zoran Ristanović, Libor Kovarik, Bruce W Arey, Johannes A Lercher, Simon R Bare, Bert M Weckhuysen

Affiliations

  1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory, 3335 Innovation Boulevard, Richland, Washington 99352, USA.
  2. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Institute for Integrated Catalysis, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, Washington 99352, USA.
  3. Faculty of Science, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, Utrecht 3584 CG, The Netherlands.
  4. Department of Chemistry, TU Munich, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, Garching 85748, Germany.
  5. UOP LLC, a Honeywell Company, 25 E. Algonquin Road Des Plaines, Illinois 60016, USA.

PMID: 26133270 PMCID: PMC4506508 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8589

Abstract

Zeolite catalysis is determined by a combination of pore architecture and Brønsted acidity. As Brønsted acid sites are formed by the substitution of AlO4 for SiO4 tetrahedra, it is of utmost importance to have information on the number as well as the location and neighbouring sites of framework aluminium. Unfortunately, such detailed information has not yet been obtained, mainly due to the lack of suitable characterization methods. Here we report, using the powerful atomic-scale analysis technique known as atom probe tomography, the quantitative spatial distribution of individual aluminium atoms, including their three-dimensional extent of segregation. Using a nearest-neighbour statistical analysis, we precisely determine the short-range distribution of aluminium over the different T-sites and determine the most probable Al-Al neighbouring distance within parent and steamed ZSM-5 crystals, as well as assess the long-range redistribution of aluminium upon zeolite steaming.

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