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Ali A, Cole DR, Striolo A. Understanding the Aggregation of Model Island and Archipelago Asphaltene Molecules near Kaolinite Surfaces using Molecular Dynamics. ENERGY & FUELS : AN AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL 2023; 37:11662-11674. [PMID: 37609063 PMCID: PMC10440792 DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.3c00504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Revised: 06/29/2023] [Indexed: 08/24/2023]
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The solubility of asphaltenes in hydrocarbons changes with pressure, composition, and temperature, leading to precipitation and deposition, thereby causing one of the crucial problems that negatively affects oil production, transportation, and processing. Because, in some circumstances, it might be advantageous to promote asphaltene agglomeration into small colloidal particles, molecular dynamics simulations were conducted here to understand the impacts of a chemical additive inspired by cyclohexane on the mechanism of aggregation of model island and archipelago asphaltene molecules in toluene. We compared the results in the presence and absence of a kaolinite surface at 300 and 400 K. Cluster size analyses, radial distribution functions, angles between asphaltenes, radius of gyration, and entropic and energetic calculations were used to provide insights on the behavior of these systems. The results show that the hypothetical additive inspired by cyclohexane promoted the aggregation of both asphaltenes. Structural differences were observed among the aggregates obtained in our simulations. These differences are attributed to the number of aromatic cores and side chains on the asphaltene molecules as well as to that of heteroatoms. For the island structure, aggregation in the bulk phase was less pronounced than that in the proximity of the kaolinite surface, whereas the opposite was observed for the archipelago structure. In both cases, the additive promoted stacking of asphaltenes, yielding more compact aggregates. The results provided insights into the complex nature of asphaltene aggregation, although computational approaches that can access longer time and larger size scales should be chosen for quantifying emergent meso- and macroscale properties of systems containing asphaltenes in larger numbers than those that can currently be sampled via atomistic simulations.
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- Azeezat Ali
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, University College
London, London WC1E 6BT, United
Kingdom
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- School
of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, University College
London, London WC1E 6BT, United
Kingdom
- School
of Sustainable Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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Drecun O, Striolo A, Bernardini C, Sarwar M. Hydration Structures on γ-Alumina Surfaces With and Without Electrolytes Probed by Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulations. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:9105-9122. [PMID: 36321420 PMCID: PMC9661474 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c06491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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A wide range of systems, both engineered and natural, feature aqueous electrolyte solutions at interfaces. In this study, the structure and dynamics of water at the two prevalent crystallographic terminations of gamma-alumina, [110] and [100], and the influence of salts─sodium chloride, ammonium acetate, barium acetate, and barium nitrate on such properties─were investigated using equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. The resulting interfacial phenomena were quantified from simulation trajectories via atomic density profiles, angle probability distributions, residence times, 2-D density distributions within the hydration layers, and hydrogen bond density profiles. Analysis and interpretation of the results are supported by simulation snapshots. Taken together, our results show stronger interaction and closer association of water with the [110] surface, compared to [100], while ion-induced disruption of interfacial water structure was more prevalent at the [100] surface. For the latter, a stronger association of cations is observed, namely sodium and ammonium, and ion adsorption appears determined by their size. The differences in surface-water interactions between the two terminations are linked to their respective surface features and distributions of surface groups, with atomistic-scale roughness of the [110] surface promoting closer association of interfacial water. The results highlight the fundamental role of surface characteristics in determining surface-water interactions, and the resulting effects on ion-surface and ion-water interactions. Since the two terminations of gamma-alumina considered represent interfaces of significance to numerous industrial applications, the results provide insights relevant for catalyst preparation and adsorption-based water treatment, among other applications.
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- Olivera Drecun
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, University College
London, London WC1E 7JE, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, University College
London, London WC1E 7JE, United Kingdom,School
of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States,
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- Johnson
Matthey Technology Centre, Sonning Common, Reading RG4 9NH, United Kingdom
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- Johnson
Matthey Technology Centre, Sonning Common, Reading RG4 9NH, United Kingdom
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Ryu G, Park K, Kim H. Interfacial properties of liquid metal immersed in various liquids. J Colloid Interface Sci 2022; 621:285-294. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.04.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2022] [Revised: 03/29/2022] [Accepted: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Ma Y, Hua T, Trinh TA, Wang R, Chew JW. Molecular dynamics simulation of the competitive adsorption behavior of effluent organic matters by heated aluminum oxide particles (HAOPs). Sep Purif Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2022.120961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Surface morphology effects on clathrate hydrate wettability. J Colloid Interface Sci 2021; 611:421-431. [PMID: 34968961 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.12.083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2021] [Revised: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 12/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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HYPOTHESIS Clathrate hydrates preferentially form at interfaces; hence, wetting properties play an important role in their formation, growth, and agglomeration. Experimental evidence suggests that the hydrate preparation process can strongly affect contact angle measurements, leading to the different results reported in the literature. These differences hamper technological progress. We hypothesize that changes in hydrate surface morphologies are responsible for the wide variation of contact angles reported in the literature. EXPERIMENTS Experimental testing of our hypothesis is problematic due to the preparation history of hydrates on their surface properties, and the difficulties in advanced surface characterization. Thus, we employ molecular dynamics simulations, which allow us to systematically change the interfacial features and the system composition. Implementing advanced algorithms, we quantify fundamental thermodynamic properties to validate our observations. FINDINGS We achieve excellent agreement with experimental observations for both atomically smooth and rough hydrate surfaces. Our results suggest that contact line pinning forces, enhanced by surface heterogeneity, are accountable for altering water contact angles, thus explaining the differences among reported experimental data. Our analysis and molecular level insights help interpret adhesion force measurements and yield a better understanding of the agglomeration between hydrate particles, providing a microscopic tool for advancing flow assurance applications.
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Ren K, Wang YP, Liu S. The role of solute polarity on methanol-silica interfacial solvation: a molecular dynamics study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:1092-1102. [PMID: 33346761 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp04422a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The solvation structure and dynamics of small organic molecules at the methanol-silica interface are important for understanding the reaction dynamics in heterogeneous catalysis as well as the transport mechanisms in liquid chromatography. The role of solute polarity in interfacial solvation at the methanol-silica interface has been investigated via umbrella sampling molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and 1,3-propanediol and n-pentane were selected as representative species of polar and apolar solutes. Free energy calculations reveal that it took a similar free energy cost to transfer both solute molecules from the interface to the bulk, despite the huge difference in their polarities. The 1,3-propendiol molecule can penetrate the adsorbed methanol layer and form hydrogen bonds with the silica surface with its backbone perpendicular to the silica surface, resulting in a significant slowdown of translational and rotational dynamics. Further analysis of solvent density and solute orientations suggest that at the minimum of the adsorption free energy curve, the 1,3-propanediol molecule is in a desolvated state, while n-pentane is in a solvated state. The collective effect of solute concentration has also been studied by unbiased MD simulations, and the free energy barriers of transferring the solute molecule from the interface to bulk, as well as the parallel diffusion coefficients at the interface, show a non-monotonic dependence on solute concentration, which can be related to the crowded environment in the interfacial layers.
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- Kezhou Ren
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory for Polymeric Composite & Functional Materials of Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, P. R. China.
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory for Polymeric Composite & Functional Materials of Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, P. R. China.
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory for Polymeric Composite & Functional Materials of Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, P. R. China.
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Ma Y, Velioğlu S, Tanis-Kanbur MB, Wang R, Chew JW. Mechanistic understanding of the adsorption of natural organic matter by heated aluminum oxide particles (HAOPs) via molecular dynamics simulation. J Memb Sci 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2019.117651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Ren K, Liu S. The effect of surface polarity on the structure and collective dynamics of liquid ethanol. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:1204-1213. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cp05373e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Typical configurations of ethanol during polarity modulation.
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- Kezhou Ren
- School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Key Laboratory for Polymeric Composite and Functional Materials of Ministry of Education
- Sun Yat-sen University
- Guangzhou 510275
- P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Key Laboratory for Polymeric Composite and Functional Materials of Ministry of Education
- Sun Yat-sen University
- Guangzhou 510275
- P. R. China
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Chia CL, Alloway RM, Jephson I, Clarke SM, Filip SV, Siperstein FR, Avendaño C. Competitive Adsorption of a Multifunctional Amine and Phenol Surfactant with Ethanol on Hematite from Nonaqueous Solution. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:1375-1383. [PMID: 30667225 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b09704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Surfactants, which contain phenol and amine groups, are commonly used in industries to protect metallic surfaces, and their efficiency depends strongly on factors such as pressure and temperature, solvent properties, and the presence of other surfactants in the system. In this work, we present a molecular simulation study of the competitive adsorption between a multifunctional phenol and amine surfactant model and ethanol at the oil/solid interface formed between iso-octane and a model hematite (α-Fe2O3) slab. We show that the surfactant strongly adsorbs at the iso-octane/hematite interface in the absence of ethanol at moderate temperatures. As the concentration of ethanol is increased, the ethanol molecules compete effectively for the adsorption sites on the iron oxide surface. This competition drives the surfactant molecules to remain in the bulk solution, while ethanol forms ordered and strongly coordinated layers at the oil/solid interface, despite the well-known complete miscibility of ethanol in iso-octane in bulk under standard conditions. Potential of mean force calculations show that the free energy of adsorption of the surfactant is approximately two times larger than that for a single ethanol molecule, but the simulations also reveal that a single surfactant chain needs to displace up to five ethanol molecules to adsorb onto the surface. The end result is more favorable ethanol adsorption which agrees with the experimental analysis of similar oil/iron oxide systems also reported in this work.
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- Chung-Lim Chia
- School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science , The University of Manchester , Oxford Road , Manchester M13 9PL , U.K
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- Department of Chemistry and BP Institute , Cambridge University , Cambridge CB2 1EW , U.K
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- Department of Chemistry and BP Institute , Cambridge University , Cambridge CB2 1EW , U.K
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- Department of Chemistry and BP Institute , Cambridge University , Cambridge CB2 1EW , U.K
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- BP Formulated Products Technology, Research and Innovation, Technology Centre , Whitchurch Hill, Pangbourne, Berkshire RG8 7QR , U.K
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science , The University of Manchester , Oxford Road , Manchester M13 9PL , U.K
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science , The University of Manchester , Oxford Road , Manchester M13 9PL , U.K
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Tanis-Kanbur MB, Velioğlu S, Tanudjaja HJ, Hu X, Chew JW. Understanding membrane fouling by oil-in-water emulsion via experiments and molecular dynamics simulations. J Memb Sci 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2018.08.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Maruyama S, Prastiawan IBH, Toyabe K, Higuchi Y, Koganezawa T, Kubo M, Matsumoto Y. Ionic Conductivity in Ionic Liquid Nano Thin Films. ACS NANO 2018; 12:10509-10517. [PMID: 30199622 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b06386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Thin film approaches are powerful methods for gaining a nanoscale understanding of interfacial ionic liquids (ILs) in the vicinity of solids. These approaches are used to directly elucidate the interfacial contributions to the physical properties of ILs as nanoscale thin films have significant proportions of the surface or interface region with respect to their total volume. Here, we report the growth of a uniform [emim][TFSA] thin film ionic liquid on a chemically modified, well-wettable sapphire, thereby allowing the in situ measurement of its ionic conductivity on the nanoscale. We observed the thickness-dependent behavior of the ionic conductivity, which gradually decreased especially when the thickness was less than 10 nm, and found it to be quantitatively analyzed well by using an empirical two-layer model. The molecular dynamics (MD) simulations show that the thickness-dependent ionic conductivity originates from the solid-like structuring of the IL near the substrate, reproducing a thickness-dependent ionic conductivity. The MD simulation results suggest that the thickness of the low conductivity region determined in the two-layer model should roughly correspond to the thickness of the solid-like structuring of the IL near the substrate.
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- Shingo Maruyama
- Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering , Tohoku University , Sendai 980-8579 , Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering , Tohoku University , Sendai 980-8579 , Japan
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- Institute for Materials Research , Tohoku University , Sendai 980-8577 , Japan
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) , SPring-8, 1-1-1 Kouto , Sayo , Hyogo 679-5198 , Japan
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- Institute for Materials Research , Tohoku University , Sendai 980-8577 , Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering , Tohoku University , Sendai 980-8579 , Japan
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Nie X, Chen J, Sheng N, Zeng L, Yang H, Wang C. Effect of water molecules on nanoscale wetting behaviour of molecular ethanol on hydroxylated SiO2 substrate. MOLECULAR SIMULATION 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2017.1353692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Xuechuan Nie
- Division of Interfacial Water and Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Division of Interfacial Water and Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Division of Interfacial Water and Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Guangxi Teachers Education University, Nanning, China
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- Division of Interfacial Water and Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Division of Interfacial Water and Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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Liu Z, Sun Z, Yu JG. Investigation of dodecylammonium adsorption on mica, albite and quartz surfaces by QM/MM simulation. Mol Phys 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2015.1029551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Liu Z, Yu JG, O’Rear EA, Striolo A. Aqueous Dual-Tailed Surfactants Simulated on the Alumina Surface. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:9695-707. [DOI: 10.1021/jp502916x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Zhen Liu
- State-Key Lab of Chemical
Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Meilong Road 130, 200237 Shanghai, PR China
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- State-Key Lab of Chemical
Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Meilong Road 130, 200237 Shanghai, PR China
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- School of Chemical, Biological,
and Materials Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 100 East Boyd
Street, Sarkeys Energy Center, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- School of Chemical, Biological,
and Materials Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 100 East Boyd
Street, Sarkeys Energy Center, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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Phan A, Cole DR, Striolo A. Preferential adsorption from liquid water-ethanol mixtures in alumina pores. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2014; 30:8066-8077. [PMID: 24933315 DOI: 10.1021/la501177t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The sorptivity, structure, and dynamics of liquid water-ethanol mixtures confined in alumina pores were studied by molecular dynamics simulations. Due to an effective stronger attraction between water and the alumina surface, our simulations show that water is preferentially adsorbed in alumina nanopores from bulk solutions of varying composition. These results are in good qualitative agreement with experimental data reported by Rao and Sircar (Adsorpt. Sci. Technol. 1993, 10, 93). Analysis of the simulated trajectories allows us to predict that water diffuses through the narrow pores more easily than ethanol, in part because of its smaller size. Our results suggest that ethanol has an antiplasticization effect on water within the narrow pores considered here, whereas it has a plasticization effect on water in the bulk. Rao and Sircar suggested that alumina could be used in concentration swing and/or concentration-thermal swing adsorption processes to separate water from ethanol. In addition, our results suggest the possibility of using alumina for manufacturing permselective membranes to produce anhydrous ethanol from liquid water-ethanol solutions.
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- Anh Phan
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London , Torrington Place, London WC1 E7JE, United Kingdom
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Zhu Z, Sheng N, Wan R, Fang H. Intrinsic Autocorrelation Time of Picoseconds for Thermal Noise in Water. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:8936-41. [DOI: 10.1021/jp5009785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Zhi Zhu
- Division of Interfacial
Water and Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 800-204, Shanghai 201800, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
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- Division of Interfacial
Water and Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 800-204, Shanghai 201800, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
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- Division of Interfacial
Water and Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 800-204, Shanghai 201800, China
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- Division of Interfacial
Water and Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 800-204, Shanghai 201800, China
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