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Synthetic chemistry: Ship reverses out of bottle

Avelino Corma1

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The industrial application of zeolites is limited by the cost of certain organic materials that are needed to make them, but which are destroyed in the process. A clever technique offers a solution.

Zeolites are perhaps best known as molecular sieves. These porous structures occur naturally, but are more familiar as products of the ingenuity of chemists — as, for instance, components of water softeners.

  1. Avelino Corma is in the Instituto de Tecnología Química, UPV-CSIC, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Avenida de los Naranjos s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain.
    Email: acorma@itq.upv.es