Advanced Multi-Component Gas and Vapour Sorption Analyser

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In our modern world, many classes of important materials such as pharmaceuticals, foods,polymers, catalysts and nanomaterials will absorb molecules such as water in the air,otherwise known as humidity. Indeed the manufacture, performance and stability of thesematerials is often dependent on this sorption behavior. Surface Measurement Systems haspioneered the development of scientific instruments for use in academic and industriallaboratories throughout the world for measuring the sorption behavior of materials based onsample mass changes: the so called gravimetric sorption method.This project will lead to the development of a new class of gravimetric sorption analyserswhich will allow experiments to be performed using either gas or vapour phase molecules forthe first time, as well as allowing for multiple gas phase species to be analysedsimultaneously. Combined with a new generation of microbalances for measuring the masschanges, these new sorption analysers will meet the more challenging and diverse needs ofacademic and industrial researchers, and will represent the new gold standard in gravimetricmaterials characterisation and are certain to be sought by leading researchers in laboratoriesthroughout the world. Key applications for the use of these instruments will include thedevelopment of new materials for carbon capture, materials for separating methane frombiogas as well as the development of the new catalysts and pharmaceuticals.