Remarkable synergy between microwave heating and the addition of seed crystals in zeolite synthesis—a suggestion verified

Abstract

A recent suggestion that there can be a nucleation-related bottleneck in microwave zeolite synthesis has been verified: ZSM-5 has been synthesised very rapidly in seeded systems with and without an organic template.

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