Dynamics of nanoconfined supercooled liquids

R Richert - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Near their glass transition temperature T g, supercooled liquids display dramatic changes
regarding the dynamics if subject to geometrical restrictions on the scale of 2 to 200 nm …

Creating and mastering nano-objects to design advanced catalytic materials

G Centi, S Perathoner - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
New developments in the synthesis of nano-materials have opened new possibilities for
creating and mastering nano-objects in order to design novel advanced catalytic materials …

Molecular dynamics simulations of water structure and diffusion in silica nanopores

IC Bourg, CI Steefel - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2012 - ACS Publications
We present molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of water-filled silica nanopores such as
those that occur in ordered oxide ceramics (MCM-41, SBA-15), controlled pore glasses …

Zeolites in catalysis: sustainable synthesis and its impact on properties and applications

H Zhang, I bin Samsudin, S Jaenicke… - Catalysis Science & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Zeolites are versatile catalysts not only for large scale petrochemical processes but also in
applications related to fine chemicals synthesis, biomass conversion and CO2 utilization …

How does confinement affect the catalytic activity of mesoporous materials?

F Goettmann, C Sanchez - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
So-called confinement effects in porous materials are known to strongly affect diffusion,
phase transformations, catalytic properties, etc. In the field of catalysis, it is generally …

Adsorption mechanisms of emerging micro-pollutants with a clay mineral: Case of tramadol and doxepine pharmaceutical products

T Thiebault, R Guégan, M Boussafir - Journal of Colloid and Interface …, 2015 - Elsevier
A sodium exchanged smectite clay mineral (Mt) was used as geo-sorbent for the adsorption
of tramadol and doxepin: two pharmaceutical products (PPs) defined as emerging pollutants …

Influence of nanoscale confinement on the molecular mobility of ibuprofen

AR Brás, IM Fonseca, M Dionísio… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The molecular mobility of ibuprofen confined to a mesoporous silica host (MCM-41) of 3.6
nm pore diameter is investigated by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy. It is confirmed that …

Confinement of tert-Butanol Nanoclusters in Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Silica Nanopores

A Ghoufi, I Hureau, D Morineau, R Renou… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
From hydrogen bonds, tert-butanol molecules self-organize in micelle-like supermolecular
clusters in the liquid state. While these nanoclusters have been largely investigated in the …

Interfacial structure and orientation of confined ionic liquids on charged quartz surfaces

YL Wang, A Laaksonen - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Atomistic molecular dynamics simulations have been performed to study microscopic ionic
structures and orientational preferences of absorbed [BMIM] cations and four paired anions …

Nonpolar adsorption at the silica/methanol interface: Surface mediated polarity and solvent density across a strongly associating solid/liquid boundary

D Roy, S Liu, BL Woods, AR Siler… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Complementary experimental and theoretical studies presented in this work examine the
structure, organization, and solvating properties of methanol at a silica/methanol, solid/liquid …