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ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 55, Issue 26, Pages 7496-7500Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201601796
Keywords
chemical imaging; heterogeneous catalysis; X-ray diffraction; zeolite; ZSM-5
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- European Research Council (ERC) [321140]
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Structure-activity relationships in heterogeneous catalysis are challenging to be measured on a single-particle level. For the first time, one X-ray beam is used to determine the crystallographic structure and reactivity of a single zeolite crystal. The method generates mm-resolved X-ray diffraction (m-XRD) and X-ray excited optical fluorescence (m-XEOF) maps of the crystallinity and Bronsted reactivity of a zeolite crystal previously reacted with a styrene probe molecule. The local gradients in chemical reactivity (derived from m-XEOF) were correlated with local crystallinity and framework Al content, determined by m-XRD. Two distinctly different types of fluorescent species formed selectively, depending on the local zeolite crystallinity. The results illustrate the potential of this approach to resolve the crystallographic structure of a porous material and its reactivity in one experiment via X-ray induced fluorescence of organic molecules formed at the reactive centers.
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