Seminars

Quantitative in-situ powder diffraction of porous materials

Speaker

Dr. Matt Hudson
NIST Center for Neutron Research

Time and Place

Thursday, 29 November 2012 - 11:00am
CSEC Seminar Room

Abstract 

The possibilities for porous materials are vast: hydrogen storage, mixed gas separations, to catalytic applications and more. We have designed apparatus for qualitative in-situ gas dosing for synchrotron X-ray and neutron powder diffraction applications. The result is that accurate dosing can be made per quantity of interest (moles of cations, per unit cell, per pore, etc.) and reactions can be followed with X-ray measurements. Neutron and X-ray powder results for gas separations in zeolites, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and porous carbons will be shown.