“…Gallium oxide was shown by transmission electron microscopy to be deposited mainly on the external surface of H-ZSM-5 [97,99,103,104], and this has been confirmed by hexane adsorption measurements [105], XPS [100], and by IR spectroscopy using CO as a probe molecule [98]. A reductive treatment of zeolite H-ZSM-5 modified by gallium oxide led to a better dispersion of gallium within the zeolitic pores as detected by STEM images, IR spectroscopy and XPS [94,97,98,100,101,103,104,106]. The formation of a mobile Ga 2 O species was proposed which is believed to migrate into the zeolitic channels where it can undergo a solid-solid reaction with acidic OH groups [94,97,98,103,104,[107][108][109].…”