Rapid Synthesis Method of Faujasitic Zeolite Frameworks Probed with Eu(III) Fluorescence Spectroscopy

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• 作者：Subhrakanti Chakraborty ; Michael Severance ; Tanya Young ; Prabir K. Dutta
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry C
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：July 9, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：119
• 期：27
• 页码：15491-15499
• 全文大小：461K
• ISSN：1932-7455

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We report a method for rapid synthesis of faujasitic frameworks with Si/Al ranging from 1.5 to 2.5. Shorter synthesis time is achieved by tuning the supersaturation during a dehydration鈥搑ehydration hydrothermal process (DRHT). The dehydration step involves extraction of water from the system during the synthesis process, enhancing the nucleation rate, and a subsequent rehydration step, where the water is added back, facilitating the growth. The crystallization pathway in the DRHT process is investigated by fluorescence spectroscopy using the Eu(III) cation as the probe. The electric dipole transition ⁷F₄鈥?sup>5D₀ (680鈥?10 nm) of Eu(III) is sensitive to the ligand environment and is used as a marker for the intermediate and final structures formed during zeolite crystallization. The ligand field splitting of this band was found to have distinct signatures for the different Eu³⁺ cation sites within faujasite. The appearance of a characteristic 5-fold splitting of the ⁷F₄鈥?sup>5D₀ band is a signature of Eu(III) cations inside sodalite cages. Using this spectral pattern, we conclude that in the DRHT zeolite synthesis 鈥渟odalite-like鈥?structures start to form in the nucleation stage for faujasite frameworks with low Si/Al ratios.