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It is not always easy to precisely determine the crystal structure of layered materials — but in order to fully understand and exploit their properties, detailed structural information is needed. Magadiite is such a layered material, used as an adsorbent and a catalyst. It is known that magadiite is a kind of layered silicates: tetrahedra, each with oxygen atoms at the vertices and a silicon atom in the center, grouped in planar arrangements. The precise structure, however, was not known — partly because the material typically occurs as small lamellas displaying poor crystallinity — until now. Satoshi Tominaka at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan, and colleagues have succeeded in determining the crystal structure of magadiite. Based on their structural insights, Yusuke Ide (MANA, NIMS) and colleagues also managed to explain why the material has outstanding photocatalytic properties and proved its application in the synthesis of pure benzoic acid from toluene using a photocatalyst system.

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Keyword: clay mineral, clay, zeolite, layered silicate, adsorption, separation, molecular recognition, metal-organic framework (MOF)

Date published: 2019-03-20

Publisher: National Institute for Materials Science

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• MANA E-BULLETIN vol. 49

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Manuscript type: Publisher's version (Version of record)

MDR DOI: https://doi.org/10.48505/nims.3789

First published URL: https://www.nims.go.jp/mana/research/highlights/vol49.html

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• https://doi.org/10.1039/c8sc03712d

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Published on MDR: 2022-12-16 14:00:25 +0900