Wrocław, Poland, April 29-30, 2025
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Lecture title:
Unraveling complexity in zeolite synthesis
With the shift from fossil to bio-Unraveling complexity in zeolite synthesisbased feedstock, new synthesis pathways are needed and zeolite catalysts could play an important role. Currently, only ~250 zeolites are known. Theoretically, there could however be 100.000’s of zeolite structures, so many useful zeolites are probably still undiscovered. The zeolite formation process is, however, not well understood, limiting our ability to synthesize more.
Our goal is therefore to better understand how zeolites form and ultimately to use this insight to discover new zeolite synthesis pathways.
We started by creating a model with the minimal complexity needed to form zeolites.
With this model, we can already observe the spontaneous formation of zeolite cages as a function of structure directing agent(SDA) size as well as various zeolite substructures, and the nucleation of LTA and AST zeolites. Over time we plan to increase the realism of the model so we can more accurately predict which SDA and synthesis conditions are needed to synthesize a specific zeolite.
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