Self-assembly enables the formation of monolayer membranes of well-oriented zeolite crystals on thin polymer films. Zeolites are aluminosilicate materials whose microstructure consists of an ordered ...

A breakthrough imaging method reveals the complex structural details of zeolite crystals and could help scientists optimize these valuable materials. Schematic illustration of 4D-STEM and a ...

Researchers have found the first definitive evidence of how silicalite-1 zeolites grow, showing that growth is a concerted process involving both the attachment of nanoparticles and the addition of ...

Beam-sensitive zeolites are difficult to study at high resolution because traditional electron microscopy often damages or destroys their delicate crystal structures before meaningful data can be ...

Taking a page from computer-aided drug designers, researchers have developed a computational method that chemists can use to tailor the properties of zeolites, one of the world's most-used industrial ...

AMHERST, Mass. - Zeolites crystals, used among other things for refining petroleum to gasoline and biomass into biofuels, are the most-used catalysts by weight on the planet, and discovering ...

More than 200 years ago, a Swiss mineralogist discovered zeolites. These unusual minerals emitted steam when heated, garnering a name based on the Greek words for "boiling stones." Since then, ...

(Nanowerk News) For zeolites, a class of minerals used in industrial and chemical processes, smaller may be better. Synthesizing small zeolites only a few nanometers across could make them more ...