Steam-Induced Coarsening of Single-Unit-Cell MFI Zeolite Nanosheets and Its Effect on External Surface Brønsted Acid Catalysis
Abstract
Commonly used methods to assess crystallinity, micro-/mesoporosity, Brønsted acid site density and distribution (in micro- vs. mesopores), and catalytic activity suggest nearly invariant structure and function for aluminosilicate zeolite MFI two-dimensional nanosheets before and after superheated steam treatment. Yet, pronounced reaction rate decrease for benzyl alcohol alkylation with mesitylene, a reaction that cannot take place in the zeolite micropores, is observed. Transmission electron microscopy images reveal pronounced changes in nanosheet thickness, aspect ratio and roughness indicating that nanosheet coarsening and the associated changes in the external (mesoporous) surface structure are responsible for the changes in the external surface catalytic activity. Finally, superheated steam treatment of hierarchical zeolites can be used to alter nanosheet morphology and regulate external surface catalytic activity while preserving micro- and mesoporosity, and micropore reaction rates.
- Authors:
-
- Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
- Univ. of California, Davis CA (United States)
- Khalifa Univ. of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)
- Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States); Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI); Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1767524
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1631759
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0001004
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Angewandte Chemie (International Edition)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Angewandte Chemie (International Edition); Journal Volume: 59; Journal Issue: 24; Journal ID: ISSN 1433-7851
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; catalysis (homogeneous); catalysis (heterogeneous); biofuels (including algae and biomass); bio-inspired; hydrogen and fuel cells; materials and chemistry by design; synthesis (novel materials); synthesis (self-assembly); synthesis (scalable processing); electron tomography; heterogeneous catalysis; steam treatment; two dimensional materials; zeolites
Citation Formats
Guefrachi, Yasmine, Sharma, Geetu, Xu, Dandan, Kumar, Gaurav, Vinter, Katherine P., Abdelrahman, Omar A., Li, Xinyu, Alhassan, Saeed, Dauenhauer, Paul J., Navrotsky, Alexandra, Zhang, Wei, and Tsapatsis, Michael. Steam-Induced Coarsening of Single-Unit-Cell MFI Zeolite Nanosheets and Its Effect on External Surface Brønsted Acid Catalysis. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1002/anie.202000395.
Guefrachi, Yasmine, Sharma, Geetu, Xu, Dandan, Kumar, Gaurav, Vinter, Katherine P., Abdelrahman, Omar A., Li, Xinyu, Alhassan, Saeed, Dauenhauer, Paul J., Navrotsky, Alexandra, Zhang, Wei, & Tsapatsis, Michael. Steam-Induced Coarsening of Single-Unit-Cell MFI Zeolite Nanosheets and Its Effect on External Surface Brønsted Acid Catalysis. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202000395
Guefrachi, Yasmine, Sharma, Geetu, Xu, Dandan, Kumar, Gaurav, Vinter, Katherine P., Abdelrahman, Omar A., Li, Xinyu, Alhassan, Saeed, Dauenhauer, Paul J., Navrotsky, Alexandra, Zhang, Wei, and Tsapatsis, Michael. Sun .
"Steam-Induced Coarsening of Single-Unit-Cell MFI Zeolite Nanosheets and Its Effect on External Surface Brønsted Acid Catalysis". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202000395. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1767524.
@article{osti_1767524,
title = {Steam-Induced Coarsening of Single-Unit-Cell MFI Zeolite Nanosheets and Its Effect on External Surface Brønsted Acid Catalysis},
author = {Guefrachi, Yasmine and Sharma, Geetu and Xu, Dandan and Kumar, Gaurav and Vinter, Katherine P. and Abdelrahman, Omar A. and Li, Xinyu and Alhassan, Saeed and Dauenhauer, Paul J. and Navrotsky, Alexandra and Zhang, Wei and Tsapatsis, Michael},
abstractNote = {Commonly used methods to assess crystallinity, micro-/mesoporosity, Brønsted acid site density and distribution (in micro- vs. mesopores), and catalytic activity suggest nearly invariant structure and function for aluminosilicate zeolite MFI two-dimensional nanosheets before and after superheated steam treatment. Yet, pronounced reaction rate decrease for benzyl alcohol alkylation with mesitylene, a reaction that cannot take place in the zeolite micropores, is observed. Transmission electron microscopy images reveal pronounced changes in nanosheet thickness, aspect ratio and roughness indicating that nanosheet coarsening and the associated changes in the external (mesoporous) surface structure are responsible for the changes in the external surface catalytic activity. Finally, superheated steam treatment of hierarchical zeolites can be used to alter nanosheet morphology and regulate external surface catalytic activity while preserving micro- and mesoporosity, and micropore reaction rates.},
doi = {10.1002/anie.202000395},
journal = {Angewandte Chemie (International Edition)},
number = 24,
volume = 59,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}
Web of Science
Works referenced in this record:
Impact of Aqueous Medium on Zeolite Framework Integrity
journal, April 2015
- Vjunov, Aleksei; Fulton, John L.; Camaioni, Donald M.
- Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 27, Issue 9
X-ray Imaging of Zeolite Particles at the Nanoscale: Influence of Steaming on the State of Aluminum and the Methanol-To-Olefin Reaction
journal, March 2012
- Aramburo, Luis R.; de Smit, Emiel; Arstad, Bjørnar
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 51, Issue 15
Silicalite characterization. 2. IR spectroscopy of the interaction of carbon monoxide with internal and external hydroxyl groups
journal, June 1992
- Zecchina, A.; Bordiga, S.; Spoto, G.
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Vol. 96, Issue 12
Physicochemical Characterization of Silicalite-1 Surface and Its Implications on Crystal Growth
journal, May 2003
- Nikolakis, Vladimiros; Tsapatsis, Michael; Vlachos, Dionisios G.
- Langmuir, Vol. 19, Issue 11
3D Nanoscale Chemical Imaging of the Distribution of Aluminum Coordination Environments in Zeolites with Soft X-Ray Microscopy
journal, January 2013
- Aramburo, Luis R.; Liu, Yijin; Tyliszczak, Tolek
- ChemPhysChem, Vol. 14, Issue 3
Electron tomography and holography in materials science
journal, April 2009
- Midgley, Paul A.; Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal E.
- Nature Materials, Vol. 8, Issue 4
Hierarchical Nanomanufacturing: From Shaped Zeolite Nanoparticles to High-Performance Separation Membranes
journal, October 2007
- Snyder, Mark A.; Tsapatsis, Michael
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 46, Issue 40, p. 7560-7573
Tailoring and visualizing the pore architecture of hierarchical zeolites
journal, January 2015
- Wei, Ying; Parmentier, Tanja E.; de Jong, Krijn P.
- Chemical Society Reviews, Vol. 44, Issue 20
Activity and selectivity differences of external Brønsted acid sites of single-unit-cell thick and conventional MFI and MWW zeolites
journal, December 2014
- Liu, Dongxia; Zhang, Xueyi; Bhan, Aditya
- Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, Vol. 200
2,6-Di- tert- butylpyridine Sorption Approach to Quantify the External Acidity in Hierarchical Zeolites
journal, May 2014
- Góra-Marek, Kinga; Tarach, Karolina; Choi, Minkee
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 118, Issue 23
Challenges on molecular aspects of dealumination and desilication of zeolites
journal, June 2014
- Silaghi, Marius-Christian; Chizallet, Céline; Raybaud, Pascal
- Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, Vol. 191
Generation, Characterization, and Impact of Mesopores in Zeolite Catalysts
journal, January 2003
- van Donk, Sander; Janssen, Andries H.; Bitter, Johannes H.
- Catalysis Reviews, Vol. 45, Issue 2
Intracrystalline rearrangement of constitutive water in hydrogen zeolite Y
journal, November 1967
- Kerr, George T.
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Vol. 71, Issue 12
Self-Pillared, Single-Unit-Cell Sn-MFI Zeolite Nanosheets and Their Use for Glucose and Lactose Isomerization
journal, July 2015
- Ren, Limin; Guo, Qiang; Kumar, Prashant
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 54, Issue 37
Factors that Determine Zeolite Stability in Hot Liquid Water
journal, September 2015
- Zhang, Lu; Chen, Kuizhi; Chen, Banghao
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 137, Issue 36
Catalytic Behavior of Brønsted Acid Sites in MWW and MFI Zeolites with Dual Meso- and Microporosity
journal, December 2010
- Liu, Dongxia; Bhan, Aditya; Tsapatsis, Michael
- ACS Catalysis, Vol. 1, Issue 1
Catalytic test reactions for the evaluation of hierarchical zeolites
journal, January 2016
- Hartmann, Martin; Machoke, Albert Gonche; Schwieger, Wilhelm
- Chemical Society Reviews, Vol. 45, Issue 12
Determining the location and nearest neighbours of aluminium in zeolites with atom probe tomography
journal, July 2015
- Perea, Daniel E.; Arslan, Ilke; Liu, Jia
- Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1
A quantitative study of the structure–activity relationship in hierarchical zeolites using liquid‐phase reactions
journal, January 2019
- Xu, Dandan; Abdelrahman, Omar; Ahn, Sang Hyun
- AIChE Journal, Vol. 65, Issue 3
X-ray Imaging of Zeolite Particles at the Nanoscale: Influence of Steaming on the State of Aluminum and the Methanol-To-Olefin Reaction
journal, March 2012
- Aramburo, Luis R.; de Smit, Emiel; Arstad, Bjørnar
- Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 124, Issue 15
Imaging the effect of a hydrothermal treatment on the pore accessibility and acidity of large ZSM-5 zeolite crystals by selective staining
journal, January 2013
- Aramburo, Luis R.; Ruiz-Martínez, Javier; Hofmann, Jan P.
- Catal. Sci. Technol., Vol. 3, Issue 5
Hierarchically structured zeolites: synthesis, mass transport properties and applications
journal, January 2012
- Chen, Li-Hua; Li, Xiao-Yun; Rooke, Joanna Claire
- Journal of Materials Chemistry, Vol. 22, Issue 34
Hierarchical zeolites: enhanced utilisation of microporous crystals in catalysis by advances in materials design
journal, January 2008
- Pérez-Ramírez, Javier; Christensen, Claus H.; Egeblad, Kresten
- Chemical Society Reviews, Vol. 37, Issue 11
Architecture-Dependent Distribution of Mesopores in Steamed Zeolite Crystals as Visualized by FIB-SEM Tomography
journal, January 2011
- Karwacki, Lukasz; de Winter, D. A. Matthijs; Aramburo, Luis R.
- Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 123, Issue 6
Catalysis with hierarchical zeolites
journal, June 2011
- Holm, Martin Spangsberg; Taarning, Esben; Egeblad, Kresten
- Catalysis Today, Vol. 168, Issue 1
Regioselectivity of Al–O Bond Hydrolysis during Zeolites Dealumination Unified by Brønsted–Evans–Polanyi Relationship
journal, November 2014
- Silaghi, Marius-Christian; Chizallet, Céline; Petracovschi, Elena
- ACS Catalysis, Vol. 5, Issue 1
Spatial distribution, strength, and dealumination behavior of acid sites in nanocrystalline MFI zeolites and their catalytic consequences
journal, April 2012
- Kim, Kyoungsoo; Ryoo, Ryong; Jang, Hee-Dong
- Journal of Catalysis, Vol. 288
Fast room temperature lability of aluminosilicate zeolites
journal, October 2019
- Heard, Christopher J.; Grajciar, Lukas; Rice, Cameron M.
- Nature Communications, Vol. 10, Issue 1
Conceptual Frame Rationalizing the Self-Stabilization of H-USY Zeolites in Hot Liquid Water
journal, December 2014
- Ennaert, Thijs; Geboers, Jan; Gobechiya, Elena
- ACS Catalysis, Vol. 5, Issue 2
Kinetic and Thermodynamic Studies of Silica Nanoparticle Dissolution
journal, August 2007
- Rimer, Jeffrey D.; Trofymluk, Olga; Navrotsky, Alexandra
- Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 19, Issue 17
On the Synthesis and Adsorption Properties of Single-Unit-Cell Hierarchical Zeolites Made by Rotational Intergrowths
journal, September 2013
- Xu, Dandan; Swindlehurst, Garrett R.; Wu, Haohan
- Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 24, Issue 2
Detailed Reaction Paths for Zeolite Dealumination and Desilication From Density Functional Calculations
journal, December 2011
- Malola, Sami; Svelle, Stian; Bleken, Francesca Lønstad
- Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 124, Issue 3
Water Interactions in Zeolite Catalysts and Their Hydrophobically Modified Analogues
journal, November 2015
- Chen, Kuizhi; Kelsey, Jarred; White, Jeffery L.
- ACS Catalysis, Vol. 5, Issue 12
Stable single-unit-cell nanosheets of zeolite MFI as active and long-lived catalysts
journal, September 2009
- Choi, Minkee; Na, Kyungsu; Kim, Jeongnam
- Nature, Vol. 461, Issue 7261, p. 246-249
Electron Tomography for Heterogeneous Catalysts and Related Nanostructured Materials
journal, May 2009
- Friedrich, Heiner; de Jongh, Petra E.; Verkleij, Arie J.
- Chemical Reviews, Vol. 109, Issue 5
Simple quantification of zeolite acid site density by reactive gas chromatography
journal, January 2017
- Abdelrahman, Omar A.; Vinter, Katherine P.; Ren, Limin
- Catalysis Science & Technology, Vol. 7, Issue 17
Ordered porous materials for emerging applications
journal, June 2002
- Davis, Mark E.
- Nature, Vol. 417, Issue 6891, p. 813-821
Synthesis of Self-Pillared Zeolite Nanosheets by Repetitive Branching
journal, June 2012
- Zhang, Xueyi; Liu, Dongxia; Xu, Dandan
- Science, Vol. 336, Issue 6089
Influence of steaming on the acidity and the methanol conversion reaction of HZSM-5 zeolite
journal, November 2013
- Almutairi, Sami M. T.; Mezari, Brahim; Pidko, Evgeny A.
- Journal of Catalysis, Vol. 307
Solvation and acid strength effects on catalysis by faujasite zeolites
journal, February 2012
- Gounder, Rajamani; Jones, Andrew J.; Carr, Robert T.
- Journal of Catalysis, Vol. 286
Exploring the hierarchy of transport phenomena in hierarchical pore systems by NMR diffusion measurement
journal, December 2012
- Mehlhorn, Dirk; Valiullin, Rustem; Kärger, Jörg
- Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, Vol. 164
Zeolite Thin Films: From Computer Chips to Space Stations
journal, February 2010
- Lew, Christopher M.; Cai, Rui; Yan, Yushan
- Accounts of Chemical Research, Vol. 43, Issue 2, p. 210-219
Stability of Zeolites in Hot Liquid Water
journal, November 2010
- Ravenelle, Ryan M.; Schüβler, Florian; D’Amico, Andrew
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 114, Issue 46
Architecture-Dependent Distribution of Mesopores in Steamed Zeolite Crystals as Visualized by FIB-SEM Tomography
journal, January 2011
- Karwacki, Lukasz; de Winter, D. A. Matthijs; Aramburo, Luis R.
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 50, Issue 6
Solid-State NMR Detection, Characterization, and Quantification of the Multiple Aluminum Environments in US-Y Catalysts by 27 Al MAS and MQMAS Experiments at Very High Field
journal, June 2001
- Fyfe, Colin A.; Bretherton, Jeremy L.; Lam, Lau Y.
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 123, Issue 22
Detailed Reaction Paths for Zeolite Dealumination and Desilication From Density Functional Calculations
journal, December 2011
- Malola, Sami; Svelle, Stian; Bleken, Francesca Lønstad
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 51, Issue 3
Thermochemistry of Pure-Silica Zeolites
journal, November 2000
- Piccione, Patrick M.; Laberty, Christel; Yang, Sanyuan
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 104, Issue 43
Long-term steam stability of MWW structure zeolites (MCM-22 and ITQ-1)
journal, July 2014
- Elyassi, Bahman; Zhang, Xueyi; Tsapatsis, Michael
- Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, Vol. 193
Interdependence between porosity, acidity, and catalytic performance in hierarchical ZSM-5 zeolites prepared by post-synthetic modification
journal, December 2013
- Milina, Maria; Mitchell, Sharon; Michels, Nina-Luisa
- Journal of Catalysis, Vol. 308
Two-Dimensional Zeolites: Current Status and Perspectives
journal, February 2014
- Roth, Wieslaw J.; Nachtigall, Petr; Morris, Russell E.
- Chemical Reviews, Vol. 114, Issue 9
Hierarchische Nanofertigung: von geformten Zeolithnanopartikeln zu hochleistungsfähigen Trennmembranen
journal, October 2007
- Snyder, Mark A.; Tsapatsis, Michael
- Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 119, Issue 40
Effect of Si/Al Ratio on the Catalytic Activity of Two‐Dimensional MFI Nanosheets in Aromatic Alkylation and Alcohol Etherification
journal, August 2019
- Korde, Akshay; Min, Byunghyun; Almas, Qandeel
- ChemCatChem, Vol. 11, Issue 18
Computer Visualization of Three-Dimensional Image Data Using IMOD
journal, January 1996
- Kremer, James R.; Mastronarde, David N.; McIntosh, J. Richard
- Journal of Structural Biology, Vol. 116, Issue 1
The Porosity, Acidity, and Reactivity of Dealuminated Zeolite ZSM-5 at the Single Particle Level: The Influence of the Zeolite Architecture
journal, November 2011
- Aramburo, Luis R.; Karwacki, Lukasz; Cubillas, Pablo
- Chemistry - A European Journal, Vol. 17, Issue 49
Two-dimensional zeolites in catalysis: current status and perspectives
journal, January 2016
- Opanasenko, Maksym V.; Roth, Wieslaw J.; Čejka, Jiří
- Catalysis Science & Technology, Vol. 6, Issue 8
2,6-Di-Tert-Butyl-Pyridine as a Probe Molecule to Measure External Acidity of Zeolites
journal, October 1998
- Corma, A.; Fornés, V.; Forni, L.
- Journal of Catalysis, Vol. 179, Issue 2
Self-Pillared, Single-Unit-Cell Sn-MFI Zeolite Nanosheets and Their Use for Glucose and Lactose Isomerization
journal, July 2015
- Ren, Limin; Guo, Qiang; Kumar, Prashant
- Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 127, Issue 37