| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/A90985/01 |
| Title: |
SOLID-STATE NMR AND AFM STUDIES OF ZEOLITE CRYSTALLISATION |
| Principal Investigator: |
Agger, Dr JR |
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| Department: |
Chemistry |
| Organisation: |
University of Manchester, The |
| Scheme: |
Advanced Fellowship (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 1999 |
Ends: |
30 September 2004 |
Value (£): |
197,125
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Electronics |
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Zeolites are of great industrial importance and have attracted a huge international research effort. It is thus surprising that their crystallisation mechanisms are still very poorly understood. An amelioration of this situation would enable greater control over crystallite size and morphology and would lead to the ability to better target syntheses. This would initially benefit the petroleum, detergency and gas separation industries. It would also certainly aid research into the use of microporous materials as hosts for the opto-electronic devices of the future with significant, eventual impact on the all-pervasive electronics industry.Novel methods in solid-state NMR spectroscopy now enable effective analysis of quadrupolar nuclei (such as 170, 23Na and 27Al, all of which are present in zeolites) and pioneering work in the group of Dr. M.W. Anderson has demonstrated the suitability of AFM to image synthetic zeolite microcrystallites. The aim of the proposed research is to combine these two techniques, providing complementary information from both the internal and external structure, to study zeolite crystallisation processes. Solid-state NMR will be used to probe the local structure of cation sites whilst AFM will be used to image surface crystallisation features. The AFM will ultimately be performed in real-time via in-situ imaging.
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