T. Steriotis et al., CHARACTERIZATION OF AN ALUMINA MEMBRANE BY NEUTRON-SCATTERING AND OTHER TECHNIQUES, Physica. B, Condensed matter, 234, 1997, pp. 1016-1018
An alumina membrane was studied by three methods: adsorption, adsorpti
on in conjunction with small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), and rela
tive permeability (P-R). The predictions of the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller
and the Kelvin equations were found to be in accordance with the SANS
results. Film areas and pore size distributions were calculated. For
the alumina membrane, a coordination number of similar to 10 was estim
ated from the SANS areas. Analysis on P-R data was performed and a con
nectivity number of similar to 8 was computed.