The characterization only of the crystalline structure could be not enough to capture the general properties of a material, and a pore detailed description of the material should be very useful.
The list can indeed be very long, it just depends on what you want to investigate in detail. As for porosity, you can add gas adsorption with different probe molecules, which is quite necessary. As for crystalline structure and texture, you can add Raman spectroscopy, electron diffraction, and many other less common diffractometric methods. There is also a list of methods only dedicated to surface studies ...
Each kind of method provides it own kind of information, so that they are complementary with each other. T
You can also opt for XRD and NMR. This can add up to your detailed analogues of your compound characterization. The best way is to follow all these sample procedures.
Dear all. The question I formulated is related with a project of characterization of hexacianometalates (Prusian blue and similar) These are interesting porous materials. The authors of the project (Roque et al) are proposing a set of methods for the crystallographic characterization of the samples, such as Mossbauer Spectroscopy, Raman Spectroscopy, Infrared Spectroscopy, Adsorption, X-Ray Diffraction Analysis, but they don't say anything about the way of characterization of the porous distribution, if any except adsorption.
Then I put into consideration the possibility of carry out this characterization with other additional techniques such as the included into the formulated question: May other physical techniques as Atomic Force Microscopy, Hg porosimetry, He porosimetry, SEM be useful to the characterization of the materials?
Then NMR, Raman, FTIR may be also useful as Alain, Hamid and Hatice noticed. Thanks, and please, read the project of Dr. Roque.