Zeolites electron microscopic image

Fig. 1.2. b Electron-microscopic image of a zeolitized fly ash after 24 h in a hot alkaline solution... 

Characterization techniques continue to develop and will impact their application to zeolitic systems. Aberration corrected electron microscopes are now being used to improve our understanding of catalysts and other nano-materials and will do the same for zeolites. For example, individual Pt atoms dispersed on a catalyst support are now able to be imaged in the STEM mode [252]. The application of this technique for imaging the location of rare-earth or other high atomic number cations in a zeolite would be expected to follow. Combining this with tomography... 

Figure 3. Surface scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of NaA zeolite crystals showing a cubic habit.

This time-resolved measurement method can be applicable to relatively slow transient phenomena, as its time-resolved measurements are undertaken while the movable mirror is at rest. The number of applications of step-scan FT-IR spectrometry to time-resolved measurements currently is more than that by any other method, and it has been applied to various studies in many fields such as studies of biomolecules, liquid crystals, polymers, photochemical reactions in zeolites, oxidation-reduction reactions on electrode surfaces, and excited electronic states of inorganic complexes. Further, this method has been applied to time-resolved measurements in combination with attenuated total reflection (ATR) (see Chapter 13), surface-enhanced infrared absorption (see Section 13.2.2) [10, 11], infrared microscopic measurements (see Chapter 16) [12], and infrared spectroscopic imaging (see Chapter 17) [13]. 

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