Artifacts and misinterpretations in gas physisorption measurements and characterization of porous solids

T Zelenka, T Horikawa, DD Do - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
This contribution provides a critical review of gas physisorption in the textural
characterization of porous solids, with the focus on the artifacts in experimental data that …

Soft matter in hard confinement: phase transition thermodynamics, structure, texture, diffusion and flow in nanoporous media

P Huber - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Spatial confinement in nanoporous media affects the structure, thermodynamics and mobility
of molecular soft matter often markedly. This article reviews thermodynamic equilibrium …

Capillary condensation of adsorbates in porous materials

T Horikawa, DD Do, D Nicholson - Advances in colloid and interface …, 2011 - Elsevier
Hysteresis in capillary condensation is important for the fundamental study and application
of porous materials, and yet experiments on porous materials are sometimes difficult to …

Capillary condensation in porous materials. Hysteresis and interaction mechanism without pore blocking/percolation process

A Grosman, C Ortega - Langmuir, 2008 - ACS Publications
We have performed measurements of boundary hysteresis loops, reversal curves, and
subloops in p+-type porous silicon, a porous material composed of straight non …

Exploration of molecular dynamics during transient sorption of fluids in mesoporous materials

R Valiullin, S Naumov, P Galvosas, J Kärger, HJ Woo… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
In recent years, considerable progress has been made in the development of novel porous
materials with controlled architectures and pore sizes in the mesoporous range,,,. An …

Sorption in CSH at the molecular level: Disjoining pressures, effective interactions, hysteresis, and cavitation

F Masara, T Honorio, F Benboudjema - Cement and Concrete Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Sorption processes are critical for drying and durability of cement-based materials. By
means of molecular simulations, we study the behavior of CSH upon sorption according to …

Charge transport and diffusion of ionic liquids in nanoporous silica membranes

C Iacob, JR Sangoro, P Papadopoulos… - Physical Chemistry …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Charge transport in 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate ionic liquid in
oxidized nanoporous silicon membranes is investigated in a wide frequency and …

Capillarity-driven flows at the continuum limit

O Vincent, A Szenicer, AD Stroock - Soft Matter, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We experimentally investigate the dynamics of capillary-driven flows at the nanoscale, using
an original platform that combines nanoscale pores (⋍ 3 nm in diameter) and microfluidic …

Chemically modified surface of silicon nanostructures to enhance hydrogen uptake capabilities

RC Muduli, P Kale - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrogen is an active substitute for current commercial fuels as a green energy source.
However, the progress toward hydrogen economy is stalled due to a lack of efficient and …

Knudsen diffusion in silicon nanochannels

S Gruener, P Huber - Physical review letters, 2008 - APS
Measurements on helium and argon gas flow through an array of parallel, linear channels of
12 nm diameter and 200 μ m length in a single crystalline silicon membrane reveal a …