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The method of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance cryoporometry has gained popularity since its inception in 1993 as a non-destructive technique for measuring pore size distributions in the nano-scale range. NMR cryoporometry is a secondary method of measuring pore sizes by observation of the depressed melting point of a confined liquid. The melting point depression constant of the absorbate has to be determined empirically although this constant is only a function of the absorbed liquid and its associated solid, not the porous matrix. Cryoporometry has the major advantage of offering, with care, directly calibrated measurements of pore volume as a function of pore diameter, of non-destructive pore measurement, structural resolution of spatially dependent pore size distributions, and behavioural information about the confined liquid. This chapter focuses on the history of NMR cryoporometry, the basic equipment required to run an experiment, and highlights some of the major results that have been achieved by various research groups around the world using this technique.
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Strange, J., Mitchell, J. (2006). Characterising Porous Media. In: Dolinšek, J., Vilfan, M., Žumer, S. (eds) Novel NMR and EPR techniques. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 684. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32627-8_13
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