Description
Extend and increase your knowledge
- 3Flex permits you to optimize your experimental parameters to gain greater understanding of your material. This is the only available 3-port surface characterization system with the ability to analyze a sample with 3 separate probe gases simultaneously, one on each analysis port, within a single run.
Extend your range of study
- Go beyond micropore and extend your range of resolution to the ultra-microporous level. The advanced engineered design of the 3Flex permits you to acquire accurate results with a resolution to 10-5 mmHg
Optimize your process
- With 3Flex you gain valuable data to validate your theories and rationalize the design and synthesis of MOFs, zeolites, activated carbons and other products. Utilize the high throughput results of the 3-port mesopore and micropore design of the 3Flex to gain rapid understanding of restrictions or boundaries that may influence or impede your process optimization.
Application – Activated Carbon
High Resolution, High-throughput Surface Characterization Analyzer
- Recognized as the most advanced instrument in the field for material surface characterization(1), 3Flex has become a crucial tool for providing accurate data to advance the fundamental understanding and theory of the porous, structural character influence in activated carbon performance.
Precise analytical tool for total surface area, extent of micro porosity and pore size distribution determinations
- 3Flex permits you to optimize your ideal, experimental parameters to acquire data important to the understanding of the textural characterization of activated carbon adsorbents and catalyst.Hard seal valves and connections of the 3Flex, permit fast attainment of low pressure, ultra-micropore resolution.
Precise analytical tool for total surface area, extent of micro porosity and pore size distribution determinations
- 3Flex permits you to optimize your ideal, experimental parameters to acquire data important to the understanding of the textural characterization of activated carbon adsorbents and catalyst.Hard seal valves and connections of the 3Flex, permit fast attainment of low pressure, ultra-micropore resolution.
Evaluate the efficiency and effects of chemical or physical activation and impurity content influence
- Break through barriers to turn theory into actual product design. Gain greater understanding of the physiochemical character of your activated carbon after modification and the influence of impurities on performance. Users can conveniently model the textural properties of their materials with MicroActive Software and 3Flex data.Enhanced data exchange with your team transforms experimental results into actionable product understanding and improvement.
Optimize your production methods to build process-strong activated carbon adsorbents
- With 3Flex you obtain valuable data to provide insight on how to optimize and predict your activation process efficiency. Utilize the high throughput results ability of the 3-port mesopore and micropore analysis of the 3Flex, to gain rapid understanding of restrictions or boundaries that may influence or impede your process optimization.
Application – MOF
Cutting Edge Gas Adsorption for a New Generation of Materials
First synthesized around the turn of the century, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are crystalline solids made up of single or clustered metal ions connected by organic struts or linkers. With controllable, periodic, nano-scaled structure and the largest specific surface areas of any materials known, MOFs show exciting potential for addressing some pressing societal concerns – for fresh water recovery (from air), for example, for highly efficient gas storage, and low energy gas separation. Surface area and porosity are performance-defining in such applications.
Micromeritics is leading the way in shaping the classic techniques of physisorption and chemisorption to generate the data needed to drive the development of MOFs. State-of-the-art technology measures:
Surface area
- To quantify capacity for applications such as gas storage. Increasing surface area maximizes storage capacity enabling the development of low pressure, high volume solutions for toxic gases and/or energy storage.
Commercial interest in MOFs stems from their diversity and tunability, the ability to stitch metals and ligands together to exert control at a molecular level. Gas adsorption is the ‘gold standard’ technique for surface area characterization and is uniquely well-suited to pore characterization for microporous materials such as MOFs. Micromeritics’ systems combine market-leading performance and dependability with the flexibility to switch between physisorption and chemisorption for efficient, advanced MOF characterization.
The strength of surface/molecular interactions: to tailor functionality such as hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity to improve gas separation or catalytic performance.
Porosity
- To optimize pore size to control molecular transport by retaining or excluding specific molecules, to separate one gas from another, for example, or to strip out an impurity.
Listen to Prof. Omar Farha, Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Northwestern University, describe his research group’s work on MOFs, their use in storage and separation of gases, current commercialization efforts and the bright future of MOFs in a 4 part series below.
Application – Zeolite
High Resolution, High-throughput Surface Characterization Analyzer
- Recognized as the most advanced instrument in the field for material surface characterization1, 3Flex has become a crucial tool for producing reliable data to increase the fundamental understanding and theory of microporous and mesoporous structural character in zeolite design and process optimization.
Extend and increase your knowledge in determining optimal kinetics of adsorption through porosity, pore volume, shape and mechanical stability
- 3Flex permits you to optimize your ideal experimental parameters to acquire data for better understanding of the textural characterization of hydrophilic and hydrophobic zeolite catalysts and absorbents. The advanced engineered design of the 3Flex permits you to acquire accurate data with resolution to 10-5mm/Hg.
Turn your ideas into optimized design for volumetric efficiency and active site accessibility
- Gain greater understanding of the characteristics and the diffusion character of the porous structure of your sample.
Users can conveniently model the textural properties of their materials with MicroActive Software and 3Flex data. Enhanced data exchange with your team transforms experimental results into actionable product understanding and improvement.
Gain valuable performance information of adsorption/desorption behavior
- Compare saturation capacities by utilizing water vapor, argon, nitrogen, or a probe of your choice, enabling you to understand structure and its influence to the chemical nature and heterogeneity of the pore walls. 3Flex is the only, available surface characterization system with the ability to analyze a sample with three separate adsorbent gases simultaneously, one on each analysis port, and within a single analysis.
Optimize your production methods to build process-strong zeolite absorbents and catalyst
- With 3Flex you gain valuable data to be utilized in the design and synthesis of zeolites. Utilize the high throughput results ability of the configurable three-port analysis capabilities of the 3Flex, to gain rapid understanding of restrictions or boundaries that may influence or impede your process optimization.
