HTTP:: RU Scientists Search for New Zeolites
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Certain compounds of silicon, aluminum and oxygen, known as zeolites, are essential to such products as kitty litter, detergents and gasoline, and, as such, important for the modern-day lifestyle we are accustomed to. There are, at this point, about 200 known types of the stuff, but experts have hypothesized for a long time that many other forms of the chemical may exist. Now, some two decades after the idea was first thought of, a team of experts at the Rice University has managed to devise a computational model that shows the wide variety of zeolites that could be out there today. The RU John W. Cox Professor in Biochemical and Genetic Engineering, Michael Deem, has been in charge of the new investigation. The scientist is also a professor of physics and astronomy. In a paper posted in the latest online issue of the American Chemical Society's Journal of Physical Chemistry C, and entitled “Computational Discovery of New Zeolite-Like Materials,†the expert reveals th!
at as much as 2.7 million forms of zeolite-like materials may exist in nature right now. Of that amazing number, some 314,000 are close enough to the known compounds to allow for their synthesis. Deem's main problem at this point is developing a method of converting the hypothetical zeolites into real ones. “A couple of things ha...
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