Ionothermal synthesis of aluminophosphate molecular sieves

Effects of ionic liquid structures on the aluminophosphate molecular sieve products in ionothermal synthesis process were investigated. The results showed that the possible structure-directing effect of ionic liquid might exist during ionothermal synthesis. Microwave heating was introduced into the ionothermal synthesis, which led to a fast and safe process for preparation of molecular sieves. The ionothermal synthesis of AEL type magnesium aluminophosphate molecular sieve (MgAPO-11) was also investigated in the experiments.