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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 83, 期 24, 页码 9201-9205出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac202238r
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-0552586]
- National Science Foundation for partial support of the equipment at the NIST Center for Neutron Research [DMR-0454672]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Chemistry [0851581, 1156788] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Neutron scattering techniques have been used frequently to characterize geological specimens and to determine the structures of glasses and of polymers as solutions, suspensions, or melts. Little work has been reported on their application in determining polymers' structural properties relevant to separations. Here, we present a comparison of characterization results from nitrogen porosimetry and from combined small angle neutron scattering (SANS) and ultrasmall angle neutron scattering (USANS) experiments. We show that SANS is extremely sensitive to the pore characteristics. Both approaches can provide information about porosity and pore characteristics, but the neutron scattering techniques provide additional information in the form of the surface characteristics of the pores and their length scales. Fits of the scattering data show that cylindrical pores are present with diameters down to 0.6 mu m and that, for length scales down to approxmately 20 angstrom, the material shows self-similar (fractal) slopes of -3.4 to -3.6. Comparison of these characteristics with other examples from the scattering literature indicate that further investigation of their meaning for chromatographic media is required.
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