The Synthetic Zeolites as Geoinspired Materials

The synthesis of zeolites can be traced back to the nineteenth century, when Jean-Baptiste Guimet was able to produce an artificial version of the highly valued and expensive natural pigment ultramarine, an aluminosilicate sodalite containing polysulfides in its cavities. For this discovery he was awarded a French national prize in 1828. In 1862 another French chemist, St Claire Deville, synthesised an analogue of levyne 

Considering the history of zeolite synthesis and the evolution of synthetic strategies as a whole we propose that it was, and still is, geomi-metic, in the very same sense that Vincent proposed for biomimetic materials synthetic zeolites realise the abstraction of good design from 

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