How Reproducible are Surface Areas Calculated from the BET Equation?

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Osterrieth, Johannes WM, Rampersad, Jarnes, Madden, David, Rampal, Nakul, Skoric, Luka, Connolly, Bethany, Allendorf, Mark D, Stavila, Vitalie, Snider, Jonathan L, Ameloot, Rob et al (show 108 more authors) , Marreiros, Joao, Ania, Conchi, Azevedo, Diana, Vilarrasa-Garcia, Enrique, Santos, Bianca F, Bu, Xian-He, Chang, Ze, Bunzen, Hana, Champness, Neil R, Griffin, Sarah L, Chen, Banglin, Lin, Rui-Biao, Coasne, Benoit, Cohen, Seth, Moreton, Jessica C, Colon, Yamil J, Chen, Linjiang, Clowes, Rob ORCID: 0009-0002-4686-2119, Coudert, Francois-Xavier, Cui, Yong, Hou, Bang, D'Alessandro, Deanna M, Doheny, Patrick W, Dinca, Mircea, Sun, Chenyue, Doonan, Christian, Huxley, Michael Thomas, Evans, Jack D, Falcaro, Paolo, Ricco, Raffaele, Farha, Omar, Idrees, Karam B, Islamoglu, Timur, Feng, Pingyun, Yang, Huajun, Forgan, Ross S, Bara, Dominic, Furukawa, Shuhei, Sanchez, Eli, Gascon, Jorge, Telalovic, Selvedin, Ghosh, Sujit K, Mukherjee, Soumya, Hill, Matthew R, Sadiq, Muhammed Munir, Horcajada, Patricia, Salcedo-Abraira, Pablo, Kaneko, Katsumi, Kukobat, Radovan, Kenvin, Jeff, Keskin, Seda, Kitagawa, Susumu, Otake, Ken-ichi, Lively, Ryan P, DeWitt, Stephen JA, Llewellyn, Phillip, Lotsch, Bettina V, Emmerling, Sebastian T, Putz, Alexander M, Marti-Gastaldo, Carlos, Padial, Natalia M, Garcia-Martinez, Javier, Linares, Noemi, Maspoch, Daniel, del Pino, Jose A Suarez, Moghadam, Peyman, Oktavian, Rama, Morris, Russel E, Wheatley, Paul S, Navarro, Jorge, Petit, Camille, Danaci, David, Rosseinsky, Matthew J ORCID: 0000-0002-1910-2483, Katsoulidis, Alexandros P ORCID: 0000-0003-0860-7440, Schroder, Martin, Han, Xue, Yang, Sihai, Serre, Christian, Mouchaham, Georges, Sholl, David S, Thyagarajan, Raghuram, Siderius, Daniel, Snurr, Randall Q, Goncalves, Rebecca B, Telfer, Shane, Lee, Seok J, Ting, Valeska P, Rowlandson, Jemma L, Uemura, Takashi, Liyuka, Tomoya, van derVeen, Monique A, Rega, Davide, Van Speybroeck, Veronique, Rogge, Sven MJ, Lamaire, Aran, Walton, Krista S, Bingel, Lukas W, Wuttke, Stefan, Andreo, Jacopo, Yaghi, Omar, Zhang, Bing, Yavuz, Cafer T, Nguyen, Thien S, Zamora, Felix, Montoro, Carmen, Zhou, Hongcai, Kirchon, Angelo and Fairen-Jimenez, David (2022) How Reproducible are Surface Areas Calculated from the BET Equation? ADVANCED MATERIALS, 34 (27). e2201502-. ISSN 0935-9648, 1521-4095

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Abstract

Porosity and surface area analysis play a prominent role in modern materials science. At the heart of this sits the Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) theory, which has been a remarkably successful contribution to the field of materials science. The BET method was developed in the 1930s for open surfaces but is now the most widely used metric for the estimation of surface areas of micro- and mesoporous materials. Despite its widespread use, the calculation of BET surface areas causes a spread in reported areas, resulting in reproducibility problems in both academia and industry. To prove this, for this analysis, 18 already-measured raw adsorption isotherms were provided to sixty-one labs, who were asked to calculate the corresponding BET areas. This round-robin exercise resulted in a wide range of values. Here, the reproducibility of BET area determination from identical isotherms is demonstrated to be a largely ignored issue, raising critical concerns over the reliability of reported BET areas. To solve this major issue, a new computational approach to accurately and systematically determine the BET area of nanoporous materials is developed. The software, called “BET surface identification” (BETSI), expands on the well-known Rouquerol criteria and makes an unambiguous BET area assignment possible.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	adsorption, BET theory, porosimetry, porous materials, surface area
Divisions:	Faculty of Science & Engineering > School of Physical Sciences
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	13 Sep 2022 13:49
Last Modified:	16 Jun 2026 14:12
DOI:	10.1002/adma.202201502
Open Access URL:	https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202201502
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3164543
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