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This chapter discusses the special experimental and data analysis considerations that relate to characterising industrial products, especially the key aims of characterising these materials, such as relating fabrication method to product performance. It will look at the particular questions that pore characterisation data is most often used to try to answer about industrial materials, such as the relationship between structure and activity in catalysts.
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Rigby, S.P. (2020). Structural Characterisation in Adsorbent and Catalyst Design. In: Structural Characterisation of Natural and Industrial Porous Materials: A Manual. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47418-8_7
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