Organization of Organic Molecules with Inorganic Molecular Species into Nanocomposite Biphase Arrays

Cooperative formation of inorganic-organic interfaces in the synthesis of silicate mesostructures.

A model is presented to explain the formation and morphologies of surfactant-silicate mesostructures. Three processes are identified: multidentate binding of silicate oligomers to the cationic surfactant, preferential silicate polymerization in the interface region, and charge density matching between the surfactant and the silicate. The model explains present experimental data, including the transformation between lamellar and hexagonal mesophases, and provides a guide for predicting conditions that favor the formation of lamellar, hexagonal, or cubic mesostructures. Model Q(230) proposed by Mariani and his co-workers satisfactorily fits the x-ray data collected on the cubic mesostructure …

Aluminum-27 double-rotation NMR investigations of SAPO-5 with variable silicon content

Summary Double-rotation NMR (DOR) studies of 27 Al species in SAPO-5, a silicon aluminophosphate molecular sieve with a one dimensional channel system, have revealed a minimum of three aluminum sites resulting from the synthesis. The DOR technique was used specifically to increase the spectral resolution by removing the broadening influences from second-order quadrupolar interactions associated with the spin 5/2 27 Al nuclei. The DOR investigations of SAPO-5 crystals with variable Si/Al ratios resulted in the identification of three aluminum species, two consistent with the reported isotropic shift values for AlPO 4 -5; however, these two resonances are only observable when small quantities…