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Synthesis of Ordered Silicates by the Use of Organic Structure-Directing Agents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Yoshihiro Kubota
Affiliation:
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
Mark E. Davis
Affiliation:
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
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Abstract

Microporous, crystalline silicates can be synthesized using organic structure-directing molecules whose function is to organize silicate species into particular arrangements that then spontaneously self-assemble into the final crystalline materials. The porosity is obtained by removal of the organic component. We discuss the molecular properties (size, rigidity, hydrophobicity) necessary for the organic component to interact with aqueous silicate species and prepare microporous silicates. It is shown that a strategy to construct large organic molecules in order to prepare large pore crystalline silicates could involve the use of two charge centers if these functionalities are distributed within the molecules such to prevent aggregation in aqueous media. A charge distribution that allows aggregation of the organic molecules at synthesis conditions directs the formation of a locally amorphous, mesoporous silicate rather than a crystalline, microporous material.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

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