Zeolites in Sustainable Chemistry

Prof. Feng-Shou Xiao received his B.S. and M.S. degrees at the Department of Chemistry, Jilin University, China. From there he moved to the Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan, where he was involved in collaborative research between China and Japan. He was a doctoral student there for two years, and was awarded his Ph.D. at Jilin University in 1990. After postdoctoral work at the University of California at Davis, USA, in 1994 he joined the faculty of Jilin University as a professor of Chemistry. He switched to Zhejiang University in 2009, where he now serves as a professor of Chemistry. For his research in porous materials such as zeolites, Prof. Xiao was recognized with the National Outstanding Award of Young Scientists by the National Science Foundation of China in 1998 and the Thomson Scientific Research Fronts Award in 2008. Currently he is also secretary of the Asia-Pacific Association of Catalysis Societies.Prof. Xiangju Meng received his B.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2004) at the College of Chemistry, Jilin University, China. Subsequently, he joined the Catalytic Chemistry Division, Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan for his postdoctoral work on synthesis and applications of porous materials. After postdoctoral work at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, he returned to China and joined Prof. Xiao’s group. He was promoted to associate professor at Zhejiang University in 2009. His research interests include zeolites and heterogeneous catalysis.

• Part I Novel strategies for synthesizing zeolites.- Sustainable routes for zeolite synthesis.- Ionothermal Synthesis of Molecular Sieves.- Interlayer Expansion of the Layered Zeolites.- Mesostructured zeolites.- Part II New Developments in Characterization of Zeolites.- Structure determination of zeolites by electron crystallography.- Structure Analysis in Zeolite Research: From Framework Topologies to Functional Properties.- Solid-state NMR Studies of Zeolites.- Part III Emerging Applications of Zeolites for Sustainable Chemistry.- Zeolites in Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC).- Chemistry of the Methanol to Olefin Conversion.- Zeolite catalysis for biomass conversion.- Catalytic Oxidations over Titanosilicate Zeolites.- Emerging applications of environmentally friendly zeolites in the selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides.- Zeolite thin films and membranes: From fundamental to applications.- Zeolites catalyzing raw material change for a sustainable chemical industry.- Part IV Conclusion.- Concluding Remarks.