New trends in tailoring active sites in zeolite-based catalysts

This review addresses the recent developments and trends in tailoring the nature and local properties of active sites in zeolite-based catalysts, with a special focus on novel extra-large pore, layered (2D), nanocrystalline, and hierarchical (mesoporous) zeolites with enhanced pore accessibility. In the first part of the review, we discuss the latest achievements in the bottom-up (direct synthesis) and top-down (post-synthesis) approaches for isomorphous substitution in zeolites enabling control over the type (Brønsted, Lewis, or both), amount, strength, and location of acid sites. The benefits in catalysis provided by such zeolites with tuned acidity and improved accessibility are shown for different…

• CE
  Central European Institute of Technology

  Award: OPP VVV “Excellent ResearchTeams” (No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000417_CUCAM)
• SD
  Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación

  Awards: CICYT project No. ENE2014-5761-R, Severo Ochoa Project No. SEV-2016-0683