An analytical approach to determine the pore shape and size of MCM-41 materials from X-ray diffraction data.
The pore shape and size of MCM-41 were studied analytically by comparing the observed powder X-ray diffraction intensities with that derived from the MCM-41 crystal structure models, with two different pore shapes, a hexagon and a circle. The powder diffraction patterns from the as-synthesized and the calcined MCM-41 were measured by a synchrotron radiation at SPring-8, Japan. The MCM-41 structure with circular and hexagonal pore shapes explains well for the as-synthesized and the calcined MCM-41 crystals, respectively. The pore size and boundary obtained by this approach agree with those obtained from an N2 gas adsorption measurement combined with the Fourier synthesized density map.
Muroyama
Norihiro
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Structural Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
Ohsuna
Tetsu
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Ryoo
Ryong
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Kubota
Yoshiki
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Terasaki
Osamu
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