Determining the location and nearest neighbours of aluminium in zeolites with atom probe tomography

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Perea, Daniel E ^a   Arslan, Ilke ^a   Liu, Jia ^a   Ristanović, Zoran ^b   Kovarik, Libor ^a   Arey, Bruce W ^a   Lercher, Johannes A ^a,c   Bare, Simon R ^d   Weckhuysen, Bert M ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UOP LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ZEOLITE;

ALUMINUM; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL; PROBE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY; ZEOLITE;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84986893150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8589     Document Type: Article

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