zeolite MFI

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Why?

Zeolite MFI revolutionized the chemical process industry as a catalyst and adsorbent and continues to surprise with new and emerging applications and structural variations. It is also prototypical of a series of templated zeolites which continue to find new applications in catalysis and separations. At the time of its discovery, it was also one of the most complex inorganic structures. Moreover, it included an organic cation in the pores making it a prototype of self assembled nanostructure. —Michael Tsapatsis