What were the ingredients for the exceptional success of Milton's discovery of the synthetic zeolites and the molecular sieve business, and of the birth of the new generation of ALPOs? I suggest that there were many common to both:
We called this family of materials "ALPO" after the chemical symbols for aluminum, phosphorus and oxygen.
By 1984 our group, now much larger, had incorporated 13 different elements into the ALPO framework, and had discovered more than 200 compositions and more than two dozen structures.