Estimating Pore-Size Distributions of Moderately Hydrophobic Mesoporous Solids

Abstract

In this paper, standard reduced data for adsorption of nitrogen on moderately hydrophobic surface are reported. This surface was obtained by chemical modification of macroporous silica with 3-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane. In addition, the statistical film thickness, t curve, is derived using these data and nitrogen adsorption isotherms measured on two large-pore ordered mesoporous silica MCM-41 samples modified with the same organosilane. The application of these reference adsorption data is shown in the evaluation of pore-size distribution and in the related characterization of mesoporous materials with moderate surface hydrophobicity.

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