Measuring the intrinsic Density of Nanoconfined Liquids

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Despite abundant research on nanoconfined liquids, determining the density, which is a key property of the liquid, remains an open problem. All the previously explored strategies indeed provide a measurement of an effective density instead of the true, intrinsic density.We therefore aim at establishing a new reliable method to measure the density of a nanoconfined liquid. We propose here to take advantage of the quantitative predictability of neutron scattering, in complement to Optical Kerr Effect spectroscopy (OKE) and molecular simulation (MD), for characterizing an archetypical hydrogen bonded liquid, acetonitrile. We expect a signature of the surface versus bulk contribution in the vibrational density of states and a direct evaluation of density fluctuations by measuring the translational and rotational motions by QENS. We require for this experiment 3 days of beam time on LET.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.90680877
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/90680877
Provenance
Creator Dr Marie Plazanet; Professor John Fourkas; Dr David Voneshen; Mr Samuel Cohen; Dr Benoit Coasne
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
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 2018-06-12T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-06-15T08:08:55Z