Synthesis of a hierarchical micro/mesoporous structure by steam-assisted post-crystallization.
Synthesis of a hierarchical micro/mesoporous structure by steam-assisted post-crystallization.
复制标题
DOI:
10.1002/chem.200901034
复制
发表时间:
2009-12
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Jian Zhou;Zile Hua;Jianlin Shi;Qianjun He;Limin Guo;M. Ruan
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Jian Zhou;Zile Hua;Jianlin Shi;Qianjun He;Limin Guo;M. Ruan
Zeolites are widely used as solid-acid catalysts and adsorbents in oil refining, separation, and environmental fields thanks to their high hydrothermal stability and sufficient catalytically active sites.[1] Nevertheless, zeolite catalysts often suffer from the slow diffusion of reactants and products in their channel systems, which is a result of their small pore size (< 1.5 nm).[2, 3] In recent years, mesoporous aluminosilicates have attracted increasing research interest as heterogeneous catalysts due to their larger pore size and narrow pore-size distribution.[4, 5] In many cases, mesoporous materials with large pores are greatly favored due to their possible applications in macromolecular reactions. Among them, the previously reported three-dimensional mesoporous material TUD-1 [6] has many advantages over conventional mesoporous materials for applications in catalysis, such as cost-effective synthesis, a large and tunable pore size, thick frameworks, and a three-dimensional mesoporous structure. However, its amorphous walls and, consequently, low hydrothermal stability and catalytic activity have seriously limited its practical applications. Synthesis of new materials that combine the advantages of the high stability and catalytic activity of zeolites and the large pore size of mesoporous materials is highly desired. To date, various synthetic procedures have been attempted for the preparation of micro/mesoporous composites.[7–11] Hard template synthesis, especially the nanosized carbon template method reported by Jacobsen et al.[12, 13] and, very recently, the ordered mesoporous carbon method reported by Tsapatsis et al.,[14] is one of the most efficient routes to a micro/mesoporous structure. Pinnavaia etal. used zeolite seeds as framework building units that can self-organize into mesoporous matrices to successfully prepare strongly acidic and relatively stable micro/mesoporous composites.[15–19] Recrystallization of amorphous mesoporous materials with a structure-directing agent as a secondary template by subsequent hydrothermal treatment is another possible way.[20–23] In most cases, however, either ordered mesoporous materials with amorphous frameworks containing zeolitic primary units in the wall or agglomerates of nanocrystalline zeolite particles with a disordered mesoporous structure were obtained. On the other hand, because micro/mesoporous composites assembled from zeolite seeds are inherently not hydrothermally stable in a manner similar to that of nanocrystalline zeolites, their pore walls would easily shrink if a long hydrothermal process was applied.[5] Recently, an organic–inorganic hybrid surfactant method reported by Ryoo et al.[24] provided a new and simple route for the synthesis of hierarchical micro/mesoporous structure and, moreover, the product exhibited a remarkably high resistance to the deactivation of catalytic activity in various reactions.[25] However, the specially designed amphiphilic organosilane that they used as a surfactant is not available to buy.Herein, a post-crystallization process under conventional steam-assisted conditions [26, 27] was applied to precursor TUD-1 materials, and an aluminosilicate with hierarchical micro/mesoporous structure (c-TUD-1) was obtained. This novel product possesses high surface area and large pore volume, large pore size of around 10 nm, and high hydrothermal stability. Moreover, it demonstrates significantly higher activity than both amorphous aluminosilicate and conventional ZSM-5 in catalysis involving large molecules. X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) patterns of the as-synthesized TUD-1, c-TUD-1, and c-TUD-1-HTACHTUNGTRENNUNG (200)(c-TUD-1 after …