3Flex is a high-performance adsorption analyzer for measuring surface area, pore size, and pore volume of powders and particulate materials. Standard methods or user-adapted protocols can be used to characterize absorbents, catalysts, zeolite MOFs, APIs, fillers and a wide range of porous and non-porous materials. 3Flex is ideally suited for analyzing gas or vapor adsorption of materials with micro porous (<2 nm) and meso porous (2 to 50 nm) and provides excellent data accuracy and resolution.
- 3FLEX Is an automatic device that allows the measurement of physical adsorption and chemical adsorption and has the most high accuracy and resolution.
- Different samples can be measured on the device: powders, foams, solids.
- The size of the sample is up to a diameter of 1 cm.
- The porous distribution (from non-porous to micro-porous to meso porous) and chemical activity of the sample can be measured.
- Measurements can also be performed at high temperatures, up to 1100oC with high and precise cooling rates, and also at temperature of liquid nitrogen.
- Different gases can be used for measurements : He, Kr, CO, CO2, H2, N2
- The samples that can be characterized by 3Flex include: drugs, ceramics, adsorbents, activated carbon, carbon black catalysts, medical implants, electronic materials, cosmetics.
Instrument specifications:
| 3Flex Physisorption Only | 3Flex Chemisorption | |
| Temperature Control | 45 °C, ±0.05 °C with 3 strategically placed RTDs | 45 °C, ±0.05 °C with 3 strategically placed RTDs |
| Adsorptive Gas Inlets | 6 | 12 standard; optional up to 16 |
| Vapor Sorption Option | Standard ports 1 and 2, optional port 3 with heated vapor source | Standard ports 1 and 2, optional port 3 with heated vapor source |
| Furnace | N/A | Ambient to 1100°C
Programmable from 0.1 to 50 °C/min |
| Degas | 3 in situ, 6 additional with SmartVac Prep | 3 in situ, 6 additional with SmartVac Prep |
| Analysis Range | 1.3 x 10-9 to 1.0 P/P0 | 1 x 10-6 to 900 torr |
| Available Micropore Ports | up to 3 | up to 3, one port dual purpose chemisorption and physisorption |
| Dosing and Evacuation Control | Proprietary Servo | Proprietary Servo |
| Roughing Pump | 4 stage diaphragm | 4 stage diaphragm |
| Krypton Analysis | Standard 1 port, optional up to 3 ports | Standard 1 port, optional up to 3 ports |
| Analysis Gas Per Sample | Ability to use up to 3 gases concurrently, one probe gas on each port | |
| Minimum Measurable Surface Area | Standard 0.01 m2 /g 0.01 m2 /g Krypton 0.0005 m2 /g 0.0005 m2 /g |