Mar 18 2010
Quantachrome Instruments, a leading manufacturer and supplier of materials characterization instruments, announces the launch of its latest and most-advanced gas sorption analyzer. The Autosorb-iQ offers a multitude of capabilities in a single instrument.
Modular in design, it can be configured as a physisorption analyzer for surface area and pore size including true micropore analysis from pressures below one millionth of an atmosphere, or for chemisorption using reactive gases, or with TCD and/or mass spectrometer enabling flow-based measurements such as TPR/TPO/TPD for catalyst characterization.
Quantachrome's President, Mr. Scott Lowell, says "The Autosorb iQ is a major leap forward in gas sorption measurement technology providing material science researchers with a highly sophisticated platform to tackle any pore size or surface area characterization problem. Building on the trusted Autosorb name, the Autosorb iQ will position Quantachrome as the preferred supplier when researchers need the most advanced instrument solution available."
The Autosorb-iQ will have particular appeal to researchers in academia and industry who are at the cutting edge of porous materials development in areas such as green energy, gas storage and separation, drug delivery, catalysis and nanomaterials. The dual-sample capability is especially beneficial to those studying materials for which the typical analysis can be many tens of hours long (due to diffusional and other kinetic limitations) since it effectively doubles the throughput in the same footprint.