The thermally induced structural modifications of the natural zeolite stellerite [Ca8Al16Si56O144·58H2O, a = 13.5947(4), b = 18.1823(6), and c = 17.8335(6) Å, V = 4408.1(3) Å3, space group Fmmm, framework type STI] were studied in a temperature-resolved X-ray powder diffraction experiment, usingsynchrotron radiation, in the temperature range RT-976 K. In the initial stage of heating (below 430 K) Stellerite Phase A (space group Fmmm) is stable, and the cell volume decreases only 0.6% to thistemperature. Between 430 and 490 K most of the water is released, the symmetry lowers, and a phase transition to the collapsed so-called Phase B (space group Amma) is observed. In this phase rotation of the 4254 Secondary Building Units causes cell volume contraction and deformation of the channelsystem. This new phase, at 530 K, shows the statistical breaking of T-O-T bridges in the four-rings and the migration of tetrahedral atoms to new “face-sharing” tetrahedra, which partially occlude boththe channels parallel to [100] and to [001]. This framework deformation is interpreted as due to the strain induced by calcium atoms on the framework to achieve better coordination after the release of water. The new structure is stable up to 750 K and the total volume decrease is about 8%. The dehydration process causes a similar framework deformation and the transition to a collapsed phase characterized by the statistical breaking of T-O-T bridges in all zeolites with STI-type frameworks.However, comparing the results obtained with different thermal kinetics, it is possible to assume that the experimental conditions play a primary role in the mechanisms of dehydration and of framework bridge breaking.

Influence of dehydration kinetics on T-O-T bridge breaking in zeolites with framework type STI: the case of stellerite / Arletti, R.; Mazzucato, E.; Vezzalini, Maria Giovanna. - In: AMERICAN MINERALOGIST. - ISSN 0003-004X. - STAMPA. - 91:4(2006), pp. 628-634. [10.2138/am.2006.1966]

Influence of dehydration kinetics on T-O-T bridge breaking in zeolites with framework type STI: the case of stellerite.

ARLETTI R.;VEZZALINI, Maria Giovanna
2006

Abstract

The thermally induced structural modifications of the natural zeolite stellerite [Ca8Al16Si56O144·58H2O, a = 13.5947(4), b = 18.1823(6), and c = 17.8335(6) Å, V = 4408.1(3) Å3, space group Fmmm, framework type STI] were studied in a temperature-resolved X-ray powder diffraction experiment, usingsynchrotron radiation, in the temperature range RT-976 K. In the initial stage of heating (below 430 K) Stellerite Phase A (space group Fmmm) is stable, and the cell volume decreases only 0.6% to thistemperature. Between 430 and 490 K most of the water is released, the symmetry lowers, and a phase transition to the collapsed so-called Phase B (space group Amma) is observed. In this phase rotation of the 4254 Secondary Building Units causes cell volume contraction and deformation of the channelsystem. This new phase, at 530 K, shows the statistical breaking of T-O-T bridges in the four-rings and the migration of tetrahedral atoms to new “face-sharing” tetrahedra, which partially occlude boththe channels parallel to [100] and to [001]. This framework deformation is interpreted as due to the strain induced by calcium atoms on the framework to achieve better coordination after the release of water. The new structure is stable up to 750 K and the total volume decrease is about 8%. The dehydration process causes a similar framework deformation and the transition to a collapsed phase characterized by the statistical breaking of T-O-T bridges in all zeolites with STI-type frameworks.However, comparing the results obtained with different thermal kinetics, it is possible to assume that the experimental conditions play a primary role in the mechanisms of dehydration and of framework bridge breaking.
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Influence of dehydration kinetics on T-O-T bridge breaking in zeolites with framework type STI: the case of stellerite / Arletti, R.; Mazzucato, E.; Vezzalini, Maria Giovanna. - In: AMERICAN MINERALOGIST. - ISSN 0003-004X. - STAMPA. - 91:4(2006), pp. 628-634. [10.2138/am.2006.1966]
Arletti, R.; Mazzucato, E.; Vezzalini, Maria Giovanna
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