Contract for the Supply, Delivery and Installation of a Physisorption Chemisorption Analyser

Description

The UCD School of Chemistry hosts many research groups that work to prepare, characterize and apply a range of materials ranging from nanomaterial catalysts to battery materials and crystalline sensors. A principal characterization tool missing from the school is a physisorption chemisorption apparatus capable of measuring the BET surface area, the BJH pore volumes and the metal surface areas or total acidities of nanomaterials such as zeolites, metal supported catalysts, mesoporous silicates, Metal Organic Frameworks and related solid phase materials. The purpose of this tender is to fill this gap. Initially the apparatus will be used to characterize catalyst materials prepared to promote the decomposition of PFAS aqueous pollutants, but in time it will be used by many school members to characterize a wide range of solid phase materials.