“…IR spectroscopy was chosen as the method of analysis, because unlike calorimetry or TPD, it gives information on the nature of the sites and with the right probes is fairly sensitive to small energetic differences between sites. IR spectroscopy has been applied extensively for the structural characterization of heteropoly compounds at various temperatures and degrees of dehydration [62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69]. This method in addition delivers information on the structure of a sample after each treatment by investigating the lowfrequency range of the IR spectrum.…”