Abstract
We here report the synthesis of nanocrystalline sodalite by a solid-solid transformation from a solid gel mixture of Al2O3 pillared montmorillonite (Al2O3-PILM) and NaOH under an ambient atmosphere at 80 °C. HR-TEM clearly shows both the formation of sodalite nuclei by the solid-solid transformation of the montmorillonite matrix and the crystal growth of nanocrystalline sodalite through the rearrangement of delocalized nuclei.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1922-1923 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Chemical Communications |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 15 |
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| State | Published - 2003 |