Sentences with phrase «porous zeolite»

The 2D analogue material has the same chemical composition and active site as the 3D porous zeolite but its active site is exposed on a flat surface, which is easier to access with such tools.

Not exact matches

Shiflett hired one of his colleagues from DuPont, David Corbin, a world expert in porous materials called zeolites, to provide guidance on the selection of materials the researchers are testing.

These zeolites are porous, granular aluminosilicate minerals facilitating the reaction as catalysts.

Professor Hofkens and his team from the Molecular Imaging and Photonics Unit have now found a way to keep the silver clusters apart by inserting them into the porous framework of zeolites.

I knew that making zeolites more porous had long been a Holy Grail in the catalyst industry, so I soon started to work to commercialize my findings.

Both are based on zeolites, i.e. special minerals of porous structure.

Zeolites are porous minerals composed of silicon, aluminum and oxygen atoms with narrow channels, like the lift shafts in a block of flats.

And yet chemists can turn methanol into petrol just by passing it over a porous mineral called a zeolite.

«This places the new material in the exclusive class of porous, high surface area materials including mesoporous silica, zeolites, metal organic frameworks, and carbon nanotubes,» says Strømme.

Lead author Dr Oliver Fenwick from QMUL's School of Engineering and Materials Science, said: «We've shown that silver atoms can be assembled in the porous framework of minerals known as zeolites with a level of control not reported previously.

Leigh's colleagues, Frances Wade and Andrew Moody, suspected that if buckyballs were trapped in the one - dimensional channels of a zeolite, they might change their properties just like porous silicon.

Zeolites are porous minerals commonly used as catalysts.

Results: They found zeolites's porous nature makes it a great chemical catalyst, but also traps tiny clusters of carbon - containing molecules that can ultimately disrupt the catalysis process.

«We use zeolite, a microscopic natural mineral that is highly porous and absorbs 50 percent of its volume in water,» says Brent Mayabb, DVM, manager of education and development at Royal Canin US in St. Louis.

Mallouk calls the new work «very clever» because Yaghi and his colleagues have designed their hubs and linkers to mimic the construction of zeolites, a family of natural porous compounds widely used as catalysts and filters in industry.