Journal
MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS MATERIALS
Volume 110, Issue 2-3, Pages 177-185Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2007.06.007
Keywords
alummosilicate gel; zeolite A; atomic force microscopy; microstructure; nucleation
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Solid phase (gel) separated from freshly prepared sodium alummosilicate hydrogel as well as during its hydrothermal treatment at 80 degrees C was analyzed by different methods such as powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), differential thermal gravimetry (DTG), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). Analysis of the obtained results have shown that the freshly prepared gel is mainly composed of disc-shaped primary particles, but also partially or even fully crystalline entities were observed by AFM analysis. AFM analysis of the solids separated from the hydrogel at various stages of its hydrothermal treatment (heating at 80 degrees C) indicates that the particles of the partially and/or fully crystalline phase are nuclei for further crystallization of zeolite. Although it is assumed that the nuclei have structure of faujasite rather than zeolite A, further growth of zeolite A was readily explained by the fact that regardless of the structure of nuclei, the type of zeolite to be formed is determined by the concentrations of silicon and aluminum in the liquid phase of the crystallizing system. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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