“…Typically these methods can be divided into either a "bottom-up" approach, requiring the adjustment of the hydrothermal synthesis protocol, e. g., hard templating and soft templating, "top-down" methods, involving post-synthetic modifications of conventional zeolite crystals, e. g., demetallation, delamination and assembly procedures, or "mixed" techniques approaches have been applied, which are summarized in a number of publications. [109][110][111][112][113][114][115][116][117][118][119][120][121] Among these methods, the "top-down" method of exposing the synthesized zeolite to an alkali/acid solution treatment (breaking the SiÀ OÀ Al and SiÀ OÀ Si bonds) is considered the most viable for large-scale industrial applications. [122][123][124] Typically, this is performed under fixed treatment conditions, i. e., optimized concentration, temperature and time of treatments, type of agent/presence of poredirecting agents (PDAs), stirring speed, etc.…”