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High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy of Aluminophosphates; Proposed Structure for AlPO4–8

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

Judith G. Ulan
Affiliation:
National Center for Electron Microscopy, Materials and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
Rosemarie Szostak
Affiliation:
Zeolite Research Program, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology,Atlanta, Georgia 30332
Kristin Sørby
Affiliation:
Dept. of Chemistry, U. of Oslo, P.O Box 1033 Blindern, 0315 Oslo 3, Norway
Ron Gronsky
Affiliation:
National Center for Electron Microscopy, Materials and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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Abstract

VPI-5 transforms to AlPO4–8 under mild thermal treatment (100 °C, 18 hrs). HRTEM micrographs, oriented normal to the c axis, show extensive defect-free regions in VPI-5, while slip planes normal to the c axis are found in AlPO4–8. Analysis of the HRTEM data, in conjunction with infrared and thermal analysis, adsorption studies and x-ray powder diffraction, has lead to a proposed structure for AlPO4–8. Though the sheets containing the 18 member rings which define the pores in VPI-5 remain intact in AlPO4–8, reduction in the porosity is attributed to blockages created by the movement of these sheets relative to each other.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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