Crystal Growth of Faujasitic Microporous Zincophosphate Crystals Using Reverse Micelles as Reactants
Crystal Growth of Faujasitic Microporous Zincophosphate Crystals Using Reverse Micelles as Reactants
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作者:
Ramsharan Singh and;P. Dutta
The present study deals with the crystallization of zincophosphate-X (ZnPO-X) from zinc- and phosphate-containing reverse micelles. ZnPO-X has the same topology as faujasite (zeolites X,Y). Reverse micelles are microdroplets of water stabilized in a hydrocarbon medium with the help of surfactants. Successful synthesis of ZnPO-X was possible using reverse micelles made with cationic surfactant dimethyldioctylammonium chloride (DODMAC), 1-decanol as cosurfactant and isooctane as solvent. The composition of the reactants in the water pools of the reverse micelles was about four times more dilute than that in a conventional hydrothermal synthesis. The dilution is necessary since a significant fraction of the water in the reverse micelles is used up for hydrating the headgroups of the surfactant. The crystals appear without the formation of an intermediate amorphous phase. Upon mixing the zinc and phosphate reverse micelles, collisions between them result in exchange of reactants. We propose that only a small ...