Seed-sol-assisted construction of a coffin-shaped multilamellar ZSM-5 single crystal using CTAB†
Abstract
A coffin-shaped multilamellar ZSM-5 single crystal (CMZS) composed of orderly stacked 2D nanosheets (70–100 nm) was synthesized via the use of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) in the presence of silicalite-1 seed sol. This crystallization strategy opens a facile approach for industrial applications using CMZS in the catalytic conversion of bulky molecules.