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Nature Materials 5, 681 - 682 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nmat1720

Zeolites: Large molecules welcome

Bradley F Chmelka1

  1. Bradley F. Chmelka is in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
    e-mail: bradc@engineering.ucsb.edu


Choosing a porous solid for catalysis usually involves a trade-off between reactivity and mass-transport properties. Polycrystalline zeolite aggregates with adjustable mesoscopic pores make both available in one material.

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