title: 3D nanoscale chemical imaging of the distribution of aluminum coordination environments in zeolites with soft X-ray microscopy.
abstract: Which side are you on? Scanning transmission X-ray microscopy is used for the first time to elucidate the coordination and distribution of aluminum in industrial-relevant zeolites at the single-particle level. Extended regions of a few hundred nanometers, rich in higher aluminum coordination environments, are heterogeneously embedded within the zeolite particle, before and after a steaming post-treatment.
authors.affiliation: Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis group Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Luis R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Aramburo
authors.forename: Yijin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Tolek
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tyliszczak
authors.forename: Frank M F
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: de Groot
authors.forename: Joy C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Andrews
authors.forename: Bert M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Weckhuysen