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Chem. Commun., 2009, 7578 - 7580, DOI: 10.1039/b913920f


Direct fabrication of mesoporous zeolite with a hollow capsular structure

Jinjin Zhao, Zile Hua, Zhicheng Liu, Yongsheng Li, Limin Guo, Wenbo Bu, Xiangzhi Cui, Meiling Ruan, Hangrong Chen and Jianlin Shi


We report the direct fabrication of mesoporous zeolite with a hollow spherical/ellipsoidal capsule structure by using conventional TPAOH and CTAB as soft micro- and mesopore generating templates; the mesoporous zeolite shows a high surface area of 717 m2 g-1 and small mesopore size of around 3 nm.

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