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Porous architectures

The porous structure of synthetic zeolites is key to their catalytic performance. A new germanosilicate with large interconnected channels of different sizes is capable of unique catalytic selectivity.

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Figure 1: The germanosilicate zeolite structures created by Corma and co-workers.
Figure 2: Only two zeolites containing 10- and 12MR channels also possess large cavities formed at the intersections between the 10MR channels.

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Burton, A. Porous architectures. Nature Mater 2, 438–440 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat937

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