Study of structural and phase transitions of carbon dioxide confined in the nanopores of CMKs

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When fluids are confined in pores with dimensions in the nanoscale, their properties differ from the bulk mainly due to the solid-fluid interactions and the finite pore size. Understanding these phenomena is of fundamental interest in physics and is relevant for several practical applications. We, thus, propose to perform in-situ neutron diffraction measurements of adsobed CO2 on two model carbon samples (CMKs) having different pore sizes by using a novel high pressure adsorption apparatus in order to reveal both the transition temperature/pressure and the structural details of the confined phase. It is anticipated that the proposed experiment would allow us to map out the phase coexistence curves (solid-liquid, solid-gas, liquid-gas as well as the pertinent hysteresis loops) and make a step towards the development of a theoretical approach on the "thermodynamics of confinement¿.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088297
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088297
Provenance
Creator Dr Theodore Steriotis; Dr Konstantinos Stefanopoulos; Dr Fotios Katsaros; Dr Andreas Sapalidis
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-11-29T09:45:25Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-12-05T09:25:52Z