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Frontispiece: Characterization at the Level of Individual Crystals: Single‐Crystal MFI Type Zeolite Grains
Author(s) -
Gruene Tim,
Li Teng,
van Genderen Eric,
Pinar Ana B.,
van Bokhoven Jeroen A.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201881065
Subject(s) - zeolite , catalysis , characterization (materials science) , single crystal , porosity , crystal (programming language) , materials science , chemical engineering , type (biology) , nanotechnology , crystallography , chemistry , composite material , organic chemistry , computer science , engineering , geology , paleontology , programming language
Zeolites form an important class of catalysts , for example, zeolite ZSM‐5 finds widespread application in refinery and industry. They build a porous material inwrought with channels and provide a large surface to the catalytic guest reaction. Current research results indicate the presence of a certain type of intergrowth that would interfere with the channel system. However, industrially‐used zeolite grains are too small for many investigations, so that these results are based on samples much larger than what is optimal for the catalytic efficiency. In this issue, T. Gruene, J. A. van Bokhoven et al. on page 2384 ff. shed new light ‐ or rather: electrons on this question by identifying the single crystal nature of crystals of 100 nm in size.