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The Study of Ti-Mcm-41 by Transmission Electron Microscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

CF. Blanford ,
B.J. Aronson ,
S. McKernan ,
A. Stein  and
C.B. Carter
CF. Blanford
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN55455
B.J. Aronson
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN55455
S. McKernan
Affiliation:
fCenter for Interfacial Engineering, University of Minnesota, 100 Union St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN55455
A. Stein
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN55455
C.B. Carter
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Ave. S.E., Minneapolis, MN55455
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In 1992, researchers at Mobil Research and Development created a new class of porous silicates, most notably MCM-41. This material features a hexagonal arrangement of pores and surface areas in excess of 1000 m2 g-1. Typically, MCM-41 exhibits pore diameters around 2.5 nm and a d-spacing around 4.0 nm, but slight variations in the synthesis of MCM-41 can produce a range of pore sizes from 2 to 10 nm. Zeolites, in comparison, have pore openings smaller than 1.3 nm and surface areas of a few hundred square meters per gram.

Recently, Aronson et al. have been studying the grafting of TiO2 to MCM-41. TiO2 is a versatile photocatalyst in many selective organic oxidations and other reactions, including the degradation of environmental toxins. by dispersing TiO2 on the internal surface of a mesoporous support one can increase the active surface area significantly and introduce some size-selectivity.

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Analytical Electron Microscopy
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 3 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '97, Microscopy Society of America 55th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 31st Annual Meeting, Histochemical Society 48th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, August 10-14, 1997 , August 1997 , pp. 1005 - 1006
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 1997

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4.The authors acknowledge the Center for Interfacial Engineering (CIE), an NSF Engineering Research Center for financial support.Google Scholar