City College Interns in Materials Research 1998

Intern: Ellie Fairbairn

Mentor: Brian Adair

Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Anthony Cheetham

Supporting Grant Agency: Los Alamos National Laboratory

Project Title: Antimony Phosphates

Microporous materials, like aluminum silicates (zeolites) and aluminum phosphates, are used industrially as molecular sieves, acid catalysts, and ion exchangers. These are made of tetrahedrally coordinated atoms connected through oxygen bridges. Antimony (III) has a lone pair of electrons, which forces it out of a tetrahedral coordination. Therefore, microporous antimony (III) phosphates (SbPO4) will have necessarily different architectures and potentially different properties than conventional materials.

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