Intersection change 688 Subject

As schematically shown by Fig. 46a, ferrierite contains two mutually intersecting arrays of channels. In comparison with the strictly one-dimensional MOF crystals considered in the previous section, their analysis is additionally complicated by the existence of two rooflike parts on either side of the platelike main crystal body. It turned out, however, that these features did in no way complicate the method of analysis. Contrary to the MOFs, which required an additional activation step after each uptake experiment, methanol in ferrierite proved to be an ideal host-guest system, where one and the same crystal could alternately be subjected to adsorption and desorption without any perceptible change in the sorbate profiles. It were these special conditions under which interference microscopy could be developed to a technique of diffusion measurement in nanoporous materials of unprecedented power [63,65,70,71,88,89]. 

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