Chemical Research in Chinese Universities ›› 2024, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (4): 704-711.doi: 10.1007/s40242-024-4041-5

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Hierarchically Macroporous Zeolite ZSM-5 Microspheres for Efficient Catalysis

ZHENG Mingdan1, CHEN Ya1, LIU Zhan1, LYU Jiamin1, YE Bo1, SUN Ming-Hui1, CHEN Li-Hua1, SU Bao-Lian1,2   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, P. R. China;
    2. Laboratory of Inorganic Materials Chemistry (CMI), University of Namur, 5000 Namur, Wallonia, Belgium
  • Received:2024-02-27 Online:2024-08-01 Published:2024-07-24
  • Contact: SUN Ming-Hui,sunminghui@whut.edu.cn;CHEN Li-Hua,chenlihua@whut.edu.cn;SU Bao-Lian,bao-lian.su@unamur.be E-mail:sunminghui@whut.edu.cn;chenlihua@whut.edu.cn;bao-lian.su@unamur.be
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2022YFB3504000), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 22302152,U20A20122, 22293020, U22B6011), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (No. WUT: 2024IVA090), and the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities-Plan 111 (No. B20002) from the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education of China. This research was also supported by the European Commission Interreg V France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen Project “DepollutAir”, the Program Win2Wal (No. TCHARBONACTIF: 2110120), Wallonia Region of Belgium and the National Key R&D Program Intergovernmental Technological Innovation Special Cooperation Project Wallonia-Brussels/China (MOST) (No. SUB/2021/IND493971/524448).

Abstract: Hollow zeolite microspheres have recently attracted much attention for their applications in catalysis, microreactors and biomedicine. Herein, we present hierarchically structured zeolite ZSM-5 microspheres with unique, abundant macropores that allow more efficient use for catalysis. The hierarchically macroporous zeolite ZSM-5 microspheres are synthesized under the assistance of water/oil emulsions and using polystyrene nanospheres as templates. The zeolite microsphere is assembled by uniform hollow zeolite nanospheres. Their large inner cavities and thin zeolite shells lead to smaller diffusion channel and higher improved accessibility to active sites, contributing to high catalytic performance in the catalytic conversion of benzyl alcohol in mesitylene. Such novel zeolite microspheres with impressive performance will be applied to numerous other industrial catalytic reactions.

Key words: Hierarchically porous structure, Hollow structure, Microsphere, Zeolite ZSM-5, Alkylation