Day1988routine Analysis of the Pore Structure of Mesoporous and Macroporous Solids By
Day1988routine Analysis of the Pore Structure of Mesoporous and Macroporous Solids By
M Day, R Fletcher
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
2 Assess the likely formal shape of the pores in the structure via
inspection and classification of isotherm shape and hysteresis
loop: check for loop closure at p/Po~O.4.
This paper sets out to investigate the problems associated with the
derivation of descriptions of pore structures from nitrogen and mercury
techniques using a series of porour solids which could represent classes
in a spectrum of increasing structural complexity.
2 THEORY
c) The pore sizes cover a wide enough range to render the Kelvin
equation imprecise.
On these criteria the most reliable derivation will emerge from solids
with type IV isotherms, HI hysteresis loops, representing sharp
mono-modal mesoporous structures with no micropores.
a) Mercury must not react or interact strongly with any part of the
pore structure.
c) The shape of the pores eg ink bottle shapes, can affect the
interpretation of intrusion and extrusion.
3 EXPERIMENTAL
3.1 APPARATUS
3.2 MATERIALS
All were pellets or granules not less than lmm in size, and had been
extensively dried at 110°C in air before introduction into instrumental
outgassing facilities.
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TABLE 1
5 CONCLUSIONS
There is some evidence from Table 1 that the derivation of meso pore size
may be reliable in all three classes.
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