Understanding the porosity of a material, whether it is a defect or a feature, is critical for its continued quantification. For example, understanding the various types of porosity defects can guide adjustments in the manufacturing process to improve the material's properties. In a material that is porous by design, the expected level of porosity can be altered through conception changes. Imaging techniques such as microCT, FIB-SEM, SEM, and TEM allow for the analysis of porous materials to quantify micropores, sponge-type voids, large macro-voids, inclusions, and so forth.
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, we strive to provide innovative analytical solutions. For over 20 years, the Thermo Scientific Avizo Software and Thermo Scientific PerGeos Software have evolved closely with the scientific community. They provide a reliable, fully automatable, customizable, and easy-to-use software solution so you can innovate faster.
PerGeos Software and Avizo Software are all-in-one digital labs that allow for the visualization, processing, and quantification of porous materials. Our analytical software enables the detection and classification of various types of porosity (for example, connected vs. isolated; macropores vs. micropores), even on images with complex artifacts (for example, pore back effect in FIB-SEM). Many porosity properties and statistics can be calculated, such as volume fraction, largest ball fitting through a given pore, pore size distribution, pore throat size distribution, pore orientation, shape factor, and other porosity properties. Porosity can be turned into a model (Pore Network Model), allowing for rapid understanding and exploration of the pore space that features spheres or ellipsoids-and-sticks type visualization with property mapping. PerGeos Software and Avizo Software also allow the direct calculation of the absolute permeability of the material from the segmented pore space.
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