What is it about?
We describe a one-step method to prepare self-standing aluminosilicate monoliths with high acidic properties and appropriate texture. Such hierarchical material exhibits all the advantage of highly acidic mesoporous zeolite-like materials without the drawback linked to their usually powdery form.
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Why is it important?
These materials are highly promising for flow applications – also with bulky molecules – in industrial heterogeneous catalysis in fields as diverse as bio-refineries, petro-chemistry, or organic synthesis.
Perspectives
Shaping of solid catalysts for large scale industrial applications in flow is a delicate, yet under-studied topic. It mostly remains in the (IP protected) expertise of industrial companies and is rather neglected by the academic world. In here we both (i) propose a realistic and practical solution for this challenging step, in the case of a relevant reaction and with relevant catalytic materials and (ii) we provide in-depth multi-scale understanding and description of the new material.
Professor Damien P Debecker
Universite catholique de Louvain
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This page is a summary of: First acidic macro-mesocellular aluminosilicate monolithic foams “SiAl(HIPE)” and their catalytic properties, Chemical Communications, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry,
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc05328e.
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