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Relaxation calorimeter for hydrogen thermoporometry
E Van Cleve1, M A Worsley, S O Kucheyev
1Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA.
Abstract:
A relaxation calorimeter for measuring the heat capacity of hydrogen isotopes in nanoporous solids is described. Apparatus' features include (i) cooling by a pulse tube refrigerator, (ii) a modular design, allowing for rapid reconfiguration and sample turn around, (iii) a thermal stability of ≲1 mK, and (iv) a bottom temperature of ~5 K. The calorimeter is tested on effective heat capacity measurements of H2 in Vycor (silica) nanoporous glass, yielding a very detailed pore size distribution analysis with an effectively sub-Angstrom resolution.
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