High Resolution, High-throughput Physisorption and Chemisorption Instrument
Recognized as the most advanced instrument in the field for material surface characterization1. The 3Flex has become a crucial tool for providing high resolution adsorption, desorption, isotherms to advance and validate fundamental understanding into development of methodologies and process improvements.
Extend and increase your knowledge.
3Flex permits you to optimize your experimental parameters to gain greater understanding of your material. This is the only available 3-port surface characterization system with the ability to analyze a sample with 3 separate probe gases simultaneously, one on each analysis port,
within a single run.
Extend your range of study.
Go beyond micropore and extend your range of resolution to the ultra-microporous level. The advanced engineered design of the 3Flex permits you to acquire accurate results with a resolution to 10-5 mmHg
Optimize your process.
With 3Flex you gain valuable data to validate your theories and rationalize the design and synthesis of MOFs, zeolites, activated carbons and other products. Utilize the high throughput results of the 3-port mesopore and micropore design of the 3Flex to gain rapid understanding of restrictions or boundaries that may influence or impede your process optimization.
1 Source: TechValidate TVID 645-C46-D86
Advancements in Performance:
- Three configurable analysis ports adapt to the specific needs of your workflow
- Research-grade instrument provides superior mesopore/micropore, physisorption, or chemisorption analyses. Ports can be configured for krypton analysis of low surface area materials
- Vapor sorption capability
- Ultra-clean manifold design features hard-seal valves and metal seals to provide high chemical resistivity, ease of evacuation, and lowest outgasing rate in the industry
- Isotherm data collection begins in the 1 o-6 torr range (10-9 relative pressure range for N2)
- MicroActive™ Data Reduction software provides powerful, yet intuitive, data analysis
- Advanced dosing method permits user to combine pressure and volume increments
- Small footprint conserves valuable lab bench space
Analyze a sample with 3 separate adsorbent gases simultaneously, one at each po
High-Resolution Isotherms
The new manifold design and embedded control provides an ultra-stable environment for pressure and temperature measurements. In addition to hardware advancements, the 3Flex contains several software advancements including a new advanced dosing method that allows you to mix both pressure and volume increments.
Vapor Isotherms
The 3Flex includes an extensive library of fluid properties of fixed gases and commonly used vapors. Isotherm data are easily collected using hydrocarbons as the adsorptive.
MicroActive for 3Flex
Data Reduction and Control Software
- Interaction with adsorption data is direct. By simply moving the calculation bars, the user is immediately updated with new textual properties.
- Click-and-drag bars slide to select the calculation range, minimizing the use of dialog boxes and tunneling of dialogs to specify calculation parameters.
- Improved ability to overlay files (up to 25), including mercury intrusion data with a file add-and-subtract feature.
- User-selectable data ranges through the graphic interface allow direct modeling for BET, BJH, t-Plot, Langmuir, DFT interpretation, and much more. The MicroActive isotherm analysis suite provides an extensive selection of NLDFT models for calculating pore size distributions
- Report Options editor allows you to define reports with on-screen previews.
- Includes Python programmable language for user defined reports with on-screen previews.
3Flex Interactive Reports Include:
- Isotherm
- BET Surface Area
- Langmuir Surface Area
- t-Plot
- Alpha-S Method
- BJH Adsorption and Desorption
- Dollimore-Heal Adsorption and Desorption
- Horvath-Kawazoe
- MP-Method
- OFT Pore Size and Surface Energy
- Dubinin-Radushkevich
- Dubinin-Astakhov
- User-Defined Reports (5)