期刊
ACTA MATERIALIA
卷 59, 期 5, 页码 2109-2120出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2010.12.012
关键词
Synchrotron radiation; Scanning/transmission electron microscopy (STEM); Porous material; Sintering; Nanostructure
资金
- Shell Global Solutions, EPSRC [GR/T26344]
- European Synchrotron Research Facility for the use of beamline [19]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [GR/T26344/01] Funding Source: researchfish
The total activity, selectivity and lifetime of a heterogeneous silica-alumina catalyst depends on the flow of molecules through complex three-dimensional (3-D) hierarchical pore structures that span length scales from tens of microns to nanometers. Unlike traditionally used mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP), 3-D imaging techniques, such as tomography, allow for the direct quantification of the pore structures. However, in tomography the field of view decreases as resolution increases. In this contribution a multiscale tomography (MT) approach was developed by combining X-ray microtomography, dual beam focused ion beam tomography and electron tomography to probe hierarchical porous structures in two silica-alumina catalysts sintered/calcined at 580 and 800 degrees C, respectively. Both MIP and MT revealed that sintering at 800 degrees C vs. 580 degrees C closed similar to 15-20% of the porosity. MIP showed both catalysts having pores spanning the 3 nm to 10 mu m range with bimodal pore distributions centred at similar to 1 mu m and < 10 nm. MT revealed porosity (50 nm to 40 mu m) was more continuously distributed than MIP; however, sintering created extremely different pore structures in the two catalysts, one exhibiting twice the total porous surface area of the other. Although MT was unable to resolve porosity below 10 nm, it showed both catalysts had large-scale porosity (similar to 10 mu m) that was completely missed by MIP. Furthermore, MT was able to provide data on necks between poses which act to constrict molecular flow. These new insights from MT through visualizing and quantifying micro/nanostructures are important for helping to improve porous sintered catalysts and other materials. (c) 2010 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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