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Fractal Analysis of Mercury Porosimetry Data in the Framework of the Thermodynamic Method
1Laboratoires de Génie Chimique et Physique des Materiaux, B6, Université de Liège, Liège, 4000, Belgium
Abstract:
The thermodynamic method for fractal analysis is applied to mercury intrusion data. The results for representative commercial carbon black samples and a series of resorcinol-formaldehyde (RF) freeze-dried gels for different values of the molar ratio of resorcinol (R) to catalyst (C) are discussed in relation with the type of behavior exhibited by the samples during mercury porosimetry measurements. The obtained surface fractal dimensions are compared with those derived previously from the small-angle X ray scattering (SAXS) and the nitrogen adsorption. Copyright 1999 Academic Press.
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