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Complex zeolite structure solved by combining powder diffraction and electron microscopy

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  • Fabian Gramm

    (Laboratory of Crystallography, ETH Zurich)

  • Christian Baerlocher

    (Laboratory of Crystallography, ETH Zurich)

  • Lynne B. McCusker

    (Laboratory of Crystallography, ETH Zurich)

  • Stewart J. Warrender

    (University of St Andrews)

  • Paul A. Wright

    (University of St Andrews)

  • Bada Han

    (Hanbat National University)

  • Suk Bong Hong

    (Hanbat National University)

  • Zheng Liu

    (Stockholm University
    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST)
    Technology (AIST))

  • Tetsu Ohsuna

    (Stockholm University
    Waseda University)

  • Osamu Terasaki

    (Stockholm University)

Abstract

Taming complex crystals Many industrially important materials are polycrystalline and so most conventional methods to solve crystal structures, which require single crystals, are ineffective. Of the alternatives, transmission electron microscopy has so far solved only simple structures; and in powder diffraction the overlap of peaks with similar diffraction angles causes ambiguities in the intensities. Now, powder diffraction data applied to an algorithm incorporating phase information from high-resolution transmission electron micrographs has provided a way of solving zeolite structures using polycrystalline samples. The new technique has successfully solved the structure of zeolite TNU-9, the most complex zeolite known.

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  • Fabian Gramm & Christian Baerlocher & Lynne B. McCusker & Stewart J. Warrender & Paul A. Wright & Bada Han & Suk Bong Hong & Zheng Liu & Tetsu Ohsuna & Osamu Terasaki, 2006. "Complex zeolite structure solved by combining powder diffraction and electron microscopy," Nature, Nature, vol. 444(7115), pages 79-81, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:444:y:2006:i:7115:d:10.1038_nature05200
    DOI: 10.1038/nature05200
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    1. Liu, Heng & Yang, Shuang & Wu, Shujie & Shang, Fanpeng & Yu, Xiaofang & Xu, Chen & Guan, Jingqi & Kan, Qiubin, 2011. "Synthesis of Mo/TNU-9 (TNU-9 Taejon National University No. 9) catalyst and its catalytic performance in methane non-oxidative aromatization," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 36(3), pages 1582-1589.

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