Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) as hard templates for preparing mesoporous zeolite Y assemblies with high catalytic activity

Abdulridha, Samer, Jiang, Jiuxing, Xu, Shaojun, Zhou, Zhaoxia, Liang, He, Mao, Boyang, Zhou, Yangtao, Garforth, Arthur A., Jiao, Yilai and Fan, Xiaolei 2020. Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) as hard templates for preparing mesoporous zeolite Y assemblies with high catalytic activity. Green Chemistry 22 (15) , pp. 5115-5122. 10.1039/D0GC01070G

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Abstract

Faujasite (FAU) Y zeolite assemblies with high mesoporosity (Sext = 347 m2 g−1 and Vmeso = 0.52 cm3 g−1) were synthesised using sustainable and economic cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) via a template-directed synthesis method, i.e. CNCs-Y. In comparison with the control zeolite catalysts of the conventional microporous Y and carbon nanotube templated Y (CNTs-Y) zeolites, the resulting CNCs-Y demonstrated superior performance in catalytic dealkylation with excellent activity and longevity, as well as the anti-coking ability thanks to the exceptional mesoporous features of CNCs-Y zeolites. Thereby, the method and relevant CNCs-Y mesoporous zeolites based on the sustainable CNCs presented here have significant implications for being developed further for improving the sustainability of relevant catalytic processes such as fluid catalytic cracking (FCC).

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Chemistry Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI)
Publisher:	Royal Society of Chemistry
ISSN:	1463-9262
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	10 March 2021
Date of Acceptance:	25 June 2020
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 06:50
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/139568

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