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Acknowledgements

Dale Bentz would like to thank the Centre International des Etudiants et Stagiaires (C.I.E.S.) for a grant which allowed this research to be initiated during a six-month stay at the Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment (CSTB) in Saint-Martin d'Heres, France. We thank H. Salle of CSTB for measuring the experimental sorption isotherms for the porous Vycor glass presented in Fig. 7. We would also like to thank G.W. Scherer and W. Haller for critically reading the manuscript, for useful conversations about the microstructure and properties of porous Vycor, and for supplying important references. Finally, we thank P. Levitz for permission to reproduce the real TEM image of porous Vycor shown in Fig. 5a.