ZEOLITE MATERIALS - RECENT DISCOVERIES AND FUTURE-PROSPECTS

Zeolite chemistry is establishing itself as one of the key areas in th e evolution of materials science as a discipline of great importance i n both applied and fundamental research. The well-defined crystalline architecture of these molecular sieve materials has made them ideal in organic oxides and substrate hosts in a rapidly developing effort conc erning new techniques in the physical chemistry of solids and the atte ndant advances in computational chemistry. In turn, there has been an impressive proliferation in the number and type of molecular sieves di scovered by research in synthesis. Taken together, these two events au gment the prospect of new directions in catalysis and selective separa tions including the development of zeolitic materials.