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Table 7.

Decision matrix for candidate materials

Candidate materials	Material selection criteria
Candidate materials	S _BET ^a	ABS^b	V _P ^c	C ^d
SBA-15	818.8	55.16	1.29	0.335
SBA-15/Ag (2.5 wt.%)	689.9	76	1.05	0.5
SBA-15/Ag (5 wt.%)	647.97	98.42	0.86	0.665
SBA-15/Ag (10 wt.%)	692.55	98.5	0.93	0.745

^aBET specific surface area

^bAmount of absorption

^cTotal pore volume deduced from nitrogen adsorbed volumes measured at the beginning of the plateau after the capillary condensation step

^dCost