PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Lee, Jin Seok
AU  - Lee, Yun-Jo
AU  - Tae, Eunju Lee
AU  - Park, Yong Soo
AU  - Yoon, Kyung Byung
TI  - Synthesis of Zeolite As Ordered Multicrystal Arrays
AID  - 10.1126/science.1086441
DP  - 2003 Aug 08
TA  - Science
PG  - 818--821
VI  - 301
IP  - 5634
4099  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/301/5634/818.short
4100  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/301/5634/818.full
SO  - Science2003 Aug 08; 301
AB  - Zeolites are crystalline nanoporous aluminosilicates widely used in industry. In order for zeolites to find applications as innovative materials, they need to be organized into large two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) arrays. We report that uniformly aligned polyurethane films can serve as templates for the synthesis of uniformly aligned 2D and possibly 3D arrays of silicalite-1 crystals, in which the orientations of the crystals are controlled by the nature of the polymers. We propose that the supramolecularly organized organic-inorganic composites that consist of the hydrolyzed organic products and the seed crystals are responsible for this phenomenon.