FORMATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ZNS NANOCLUSTERS IN THE PORE CHANNELS OF MORDENITE ZEOLITE

Year 2019, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 6 - 10, 01.06.2019

Pirzada Afridi Ka Ming Leung Liam France Vladimir L. Kuznetsov Peter P. Edwards Asel Sartbaeva

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3592241

Abstract

Mordenite zeolite was synthesized without organic structure directing agents. We used ion exchangeto create the zinc sulphide nano-clusters inside the zeolite framework. The as-synthesised Na-MORzeolite and exchanged samples Zn-MOR, ZnS-MOR zeolites were characterised by X-ray powderdiffraction XRPD , solid state magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance MAS NMR ,energy-dispersive X-ray EDX elemental analysis, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller BET surface areaanalysis, and transmission electron microscopy TEM . PXRD shows that exchange does not affectthe zeolite framework, a a slight increase in the unit cell parameters from Na-MOR to ZnS-MOR isobserved. The successful incorporation of Zn2+into the MOR framework is confirmed by 23Na NMR.EDX, BET, and TEM analyses also provide evidences for the formation of ZnS nano-clusters

Keywords

Zeolite, Nanoclusters, Ion Exchange, Structure, Diffraction, Microscopy

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