‘HOT’ paper – using confocal fluorescence microscopy to view zeolite crystals
Bert Weckhuysen and Lukasz Karwacki have combined UV-Vis/confocal fluorescence micro-spectroscopy to allow in situ mapping of the template decomposition process in large zeolite ZSM-5 crystals.
New insight in the template decomposition process of large zeolite ZSM-5 crystals: an in situ UV-Vis/fluorescence micro-spectroscopy study
Lukasz Karwacki and Bert M. Weckhuysen
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02220A
Seeing small differences in the diffusion rate of the molecules by confocal fluorescence microscopy in the porous catalyst body allowed visualization of the internal architecture of zeolite crystals and confirmed the presence of a 90 degree intergrowth structure within large ZSM-5 crystals.
