Probing the Location and Speciation of Elements in Zeolites with Correlated Atom Probe Tomography and Scanning Transmission X-Ray Microscopy

Schmidt, Joel E.; Ye, Xinwei; van Ravenhorst, Ilse K.; Oord, Ramon; Shapiro, David A.; Yu, Young-Sang; Bare, Simon R.; Meirer, Florian; Poplawsky, Jonathan D.; Weckhuysen, Bert M.

doi:10.1002/cctc.201801378

Title: Probing the Location and Speciation of Elements in Zeolites with Correlated Atom Probe Tomography and Scanning Transmission X-Ray Microscopy

Journal Article · Wed Oct 31 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · ChemCatChem

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201801378· OSTI ID:1503580

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Univ. of Utrecht, Utrecht (Netherlands)
Univ. of Utrecht, Utrecht (Netherlands); Nankai Univ., Tianjin (China). Key Lab. of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (MOE)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Characterizing materials at nanoscale resolution to provide new insights into structure property performance relationships continues to be a challenging research target due to the inherently low signal from small sample volumes, and is even more difficult for nonconductive materials, such as zeolites. Herein, we present the characterization of a single Cu-exchanged zeolite crystal, namely Cu-SSZ-13, used for NOX reduction in automotive emissions, that was subject to a simulated 135,000-mile aging. By correlating Atom Probe Tomography (APT), a single atom microscopy method, and Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy (STXM), which produces high spatial resolution X-ray Absorption Near Edge Spectroscopy (XANES) maps, we show that a spatially non-uniform proportion of the Al was removed from the zeolite framework. The techniques reveal that this degradation is heterogeneous at length scales from micrometers to tens of nanometers, providing complementary insight into the long-term deactivation of this catalyst system.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; 321140; AC02-05CH11231; AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1503580

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1559797; OSTI ID: 1560389

Journal Information:: ChemCatChem, Vol. 11, Issue 1; ISSN 1867-3880

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