Upon addition of gold to silicalite-1 pellets (a MFI-type zeolite), the vapor phase oxidation of ethanol could be addressed to acetaldehyde or acetic acid formation. By optimizing the catalyst composition and reaction conditions, the conversion of ethanol could be tuned to acetaldehyde with 97% selectivity at 71% conversion or to acetic acid with 78% selectivity at total conversion. Considering...

Microwave heating has been shown to influence various inorganic chemical reactions. Substantial reductions in the synthesis time for materials have been reported (1). Additionally, product characteristics and quality of materials synthesized by microwave heating are different from those synthesized under conventional heating methods. The mechanism which results in microwave enhancement is not c...

Titanium-substituted silicalites, prepared from two different silicalite precursors, are characterized using Raman spectroscopy, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, pyridine adsorption, and methanol oxidation. The silicalite precursors used are tetraethyl orthosilicate and Ludox AS 40. Two different types of titania species are observed in the titania silicalites. Below 1.6 mole% Ti/(Ti + Si), a dis...

In this work, the method of enzyme adsorption on different zeolites and mesoporous silica spheres (MSS) was investigated for the creation of conductometric biosensors. The conductometric transducers consisted of gold interdigitated electrodes were placed on the ceramic support. The transducers were modified with zeolites and MSS, and then the enzymes were adsorbed on the transducer surface. Dif...

Synthesis of core–shell nanostructures with magnetic core and zeolitic shell is an ongoing challenge. Herein, a strategy presented for preparation γ-Fe2O3@mesoporous silica (mSiO2) nanoparticles containing ultrasmall domains silicalite-1 in the (γ-Fe2O3@mSiO2/silicalite-1). The consists solid-state reorganization precursor amorphous mSiO2 into using tetrapropylammonium hydroxide (TPAOH) as orga...

An elementary reaction during cracking of a hydrocarbon in a nanoporous silicalite catalyst includes ejection of a hydrid ion as shown in the picture. The reaction was simulated by means of quantum molecular dynamics.

A thermodynamic analysis based on the osmotic ensemble scheme enables the prediction of structural changes occurring in silicalite-1 zeolite upon halocarbon molecule adsorption.

Pure silica zeolites are potentially hydrophobic and have therefore been considered to be interesting candidates for separating alcohols, e.g., 1-butanol, from water. Zeolites are traditionally synthesized at high pH, leading to the formation of intracrystalline defects in the form of silanol defects in the framework. These silanol groups introduce polar adsorption sites into the framework, pot...

Zeolite–sepiolite inorganic nanoheterostructures have been hydrothermally synthesized by adding a dispersion of colloidal sepiolite to a solution able to produce a nanocrystalline zeolite (silicalite). The obtained product could be recovered in good yield by simple filtration only when the relative sepiolite concentration exceeded a threshold of 1.8 wt% in the synthesis mixture (amounting to 1:...

Abstract In the present work, we have developed a mesoporous silicalite-1 using CMC as template for removal of MB from aqueous solution. The synthesized were characterized scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission (TEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), Energy-dispersive (EDAX) and N 2 adsorption–desorption isothe...