PFI:AIR - TT: Robust and Selective Catalysts Based on Organic-Functionalized Delaminated Zeolites

这个PFI：AIR TT项目专注于将催化剂材料科学研究成果转化为分层沸石领域的研究成果，以满足社会对更环保和更经济高效的化工产品生产的需求。功能化的分层沸石催化剂非常重要，因为它们具有更高的效率和更长的使用寿命，易于回收催化剂，并在加工过程中进行回收，因此可以显著节省能源。这些催化剂还旨在用对环境无害的催化剂取代有毒试剂，这些试剂在发生事故时可能会损害环境，而且由于其固体性质，泄漏的危险最小。所有这些原因最终导致生产用于塑料容器、涂料和涂料等日常产品的关键化学中间体的成本节省。该项目将产生一种有机功能化分层沸石材料的概念验证原型，该材料可以作为化学工业的强大催化剂。这种官能化的分层沸石具有以下独特的特点：抗浸出、高活性和高选择性地产生所需的化学反应产物，以及寿命长且失活最少。与市场上领先的同类工业催化剂相比，这些特性可节省成本、提高能源效率，并将对环境的影响、腐蚀和毒性降至最低。该项目在从研究发现转化为商业应用的过程中解决了以下技术差距。这项研究特别发展了涉及表面催化的结构-功能关系。了解了在分层沸石的背景下，杂原子环境如何影响催化剂的活性和选择性，这是这类新型固体催化剂的一个新兴领域。该研究还在二维层状沸石结构的背景下研究了限制的催化效果，这是一个在概念上有别于传统的块状沸石结构中的三维限制的发展前沿。此外，参与该项目的人员，包括毕业生和博士后，将获得创新和技术转化经验，作为创业活动的一部分，并作为一个团队的一员，该团队旨在开展这一提案的工作，并进一步推动该领域的技术商业化。该项目吸引了在化学产品生产方面处于领先地位的工业合作伙伴，旨在通过降低生产成本和对环境的影响来合成更好地满足其需求的新材料。这些合作伙伴将通过在工业相关环境下提供新材料测试来增强研究能力，这些测试将被用于指导技术转换工作从研究发现到商业现实。

This PFI:AIR TT project focuses on translating catalyst materials science research discovery within the area of delaminated zeolites to fill society's need for more environmentally friendly and economically efficient production of chemical products. Functionalized delaminated zeolite catalysts are important because they can result in significant savings in energy due to their higher efficiency and longer lifetime, ease of catalyst recovery, and recycling during processing. These catalysts also aim to replace toxic reagents, which can harm the environment when leaked in the case of an accident, with catalysts that are environmentally benign and pose minimal danger of leakage due to their solid nature. All of these reasons ultimately result in cost savings for the production of key chemical intermediates that go into everyday products such as plastic containers, coatings, and paints. The project will result in a proof-of-concept prototype of an organically functionalized delaminated zeolite material, which can function as a robust catalyst for chemical industry. This functionalized delaminated zeolite has the following unique features: resistance to leaching, high activity and selectivity in producing a desired product outcome of a chemical reaction, and long lifetime with minimal deactivation. These features provide cost savings, energy efficiency, and minimal environmental impact, corrosion, and toxicity, when compared to the leading competing industrial catalysts in this market space. This project addresses the following technology gaps as it translates from research discovery toward commercial application. The research specifically develops structure-function relationships involving catalysis on surfaces. An understanding of how heteroatom environment influences catalyst activity and selectivity within the context of delaminated zeolites is provided, which is an emerging area for this new class of robust solid catalysts. The research also investigates catalytic effects of confinement within the context of 2-dimensional layered zeolitic structures, a developing frontier that is distinct conceptually from conventional 3-dimensional confinement within bulk zeolite structures. In addition, personnel involved in this project, graduates and post-docs, will receive innovation and technology translation experiences as part of entrepreneurship activities, and as part of a team that is geared to conduct the work of this proposal and further technology in the area towards commercialization. The project engages industrial partners who are leaders in the production of chemical products, by aiming to synthesize new materials that will better serve their needs by decreasing the cost and environmental impact of such production. These partners will augment research capability by providing testing of new materials under industrially relevant environments, which will be used to guide the technology translation effort from research discovery toward commercial reality.