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Ludescher L, Morak R, Braxmeier S, Putz F, Hüsing N, Reichenauer G, Paris O. Hierarchically organized materials with ordered mesopores: adsorption isotherm and adsorption-induced deformation from small-angle scattering. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:12713-12723. [PMID: 32462146 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp01026j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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In situ small angle scattering is used to study the pore filling mechanism and the adsorption induced deformation of a silica sample with hierarchical porosity upon water adsorption. The high structural order of the cylindrical mesopores on a 2D hexagonal lattice allows obtaining adsorption induced strains from the shift of the corresponding Bragg peaks measured by in situ small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). However, apparent strains due to scattering contrast induced changes of the Bragg peak shapes emerge in SAXS. In contrast, small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) allows determining the real adsorption induced strains by employing a H2O/D2O adsorbate with net coherent scattering length density of zero. This allows separating the apparent strains from the real strains experimentally and comparing them with strains obtained from model calculations of the SAXS intensity. It is shown that the apparent strains cannot be described at all by a simple mesopore model of film growth and capillary condensation. A hierarchical model taking the scattering of the micropores and the outer surface of the mesoporous struts in the hierarchically porous sample properly into account, together with a modified mesopore filling mechanism based on a corona model, leads to satisfactory description of both, the adsorption isotherm and the measured apparent strains as derived by SAXS.
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- Lukas Ludescher
- Institute of Physics, Montanuniversität Leoben, Franz-Josef Strasse 18, 8700, Leoben, Austria.
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- Institute of Physics, Montanuniversität Leoben, Franz-Josef Strasse 18, 8700, Leoben, Austria.
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- Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research, Magdalene-Schoch-Str. 3, 97074 Wuerzburg, Germany
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- Chemistry and Physics of Materials, Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Jakob-Haringer Str. 2a, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
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- Chemistry and Physics of Materials, Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Jakob-Haringer Str. 2a, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
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- Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research, Magdalene-Schoch-Str. 3, 97074 Wuerzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, Montanuniversität Leoben, Franz-Josef Strasse 18, 8700, Leoben, Austria.
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Ferreiro-Rangel CA, Gelb LD. Investigation of the Bulk Modulus of Silica Aerogel Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations of a Coarse-Grained Model. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:7095-105. [DOI: 10.1021/jp3128737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Carlos A. Ferreiro-Rangel
- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson,
Texas 75080, United States
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson,
Texas 75080, United States
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Monson P. Fluids Confined in Porous Materials: Towards a Unified Understanding of Thermodynamics and Dynamics. CHEM-ING-TECH 2011. [DOI: 10.1002/cite.201000181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Coleman SW, Vassilicos JC. Tortuosity of unsaturated porous fractal materials. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2008; 78:016308. [PMID: 18764051 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.78.016308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2007] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The tortuosity of a capillary-condensed film of inviscid fluid adsorbed onto fractal substrates as a function of the filling fraction of the fluid has been calculated numerically. This acts as a way of probing the multiscale structure of the objects. It is found that the variation of tortuosity alpha with filling fraction varphi is found to follow a power law of the form alpha approximately varphi- for both deterministic and stochastic fractals. These numerically calculated exponents are compared to exponents obtained from a phenomenological scaling and good agreement is found, particularly for the stochastic fractals.
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- S W Coleman
- Department of Aeronautics and Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College, London, SW7 2BY, United Kingdom.
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Eschricht N, Hoinkis E, Mädler F. Nitrogen distribution at 77.7 K in mesoporous Gelsil 50 generated via evolutionary minimization with statistical descriptors derived from adsorption and in situ SANS. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2007; 23:2145-57. [PMID: 17279707 DOI: 10.1021/la062587m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Digitized periodic material models of size 100(3) nm3 of mesoporous xerogel Gelsil 50 are reconstructed by use of an evolutionary minimization technique, with two-point probability S2(r) and volume-based pore size distribution Psi(D) as a hybrid target function. S2(r) and Psi(D) are derived from small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) and adsorption data, respectively. The nitrogen distribution in Gelsil 50 is characterized in the multilayer adsorption and capillary-condensation regimes by S2(r) and statistical parameters obtained from in situ SANS data. The fraction of liquid-free pore space varphi is calculated from nitrogen adsorption data, and the distribution Psicorr(D) of the diameter of the liquid-free pore space at certain relative pressures is derived from Psi(D). The evolutionary algorithm is also used to generate the spatial nitrogen distribution by means of the descriptors varphi, S2(r), and Psicorr(D). The morphological parameters obtained from the reconstructs are compared to the respective SANS results.
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- N Eschricht
- Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin GmbH, Glienickerstrasse 100, D-14109 Berlin, Germany
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Salazar R, Gelb LD. A computational study of the reconstruction of amorphous mesoporous materials from gas adsorption isotherms and structure factors via evolutionary optimization. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2007; 23:530-41. [PMID: 17209604 DOI: 10.1021/la0619123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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A general method for the three-dimensional reconstruction of mesoporous materials by evolutionary optimization against target data is developed. The method is applied specifically in reconstruction of amorphous material models using gas adsorption data, structure factor data, or a combination of both. A recently introduced lattice-gas approach is used to model adsorption in these calculations, and a high-pass limited Fourier representation is used to facilitate evolution of large-scale structures during the optimization. Reconstructions are made of several material models which mimic real materials obtained either by phase separation and etching or by sol-gel processing. Analysis of the reconstructions provides considerable insight into the type and quantity of structural information probed by gas adsorption and small-angle scattering experiments. We find that reconstructions based only on structure factors tend to underestimate the mean pore size. We also find that in many cases excellent reconstructions can be obtained using only adsorption-branch data, and that in all cases reconstructions based jointly on both types of data are superior to those based only on one, suggesting that these measures contain "complementary" information. It is also found that in most cases the use of desorption data is not warranted, and that the use of adsorption data taken at many temperatures will not improve reconstructions. The reproducibility of the method is shown to be satisfactory. The method can be computationally expensive if gas adsorption data are used, but it is easily parallelized, and therefore results can still be obtained in reasonable time. Finally, the possible application of this approach to real systems, including templated porous materials, is discussed.
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- Rafael Salazar
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Materials Innovation, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
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Detcheverry F, Kierlik E, Rosinberg ML, Tarjus G. Gas adsorption and desorption in silica aerogels: a theoretical study of scattering properties. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2006; 73:041511. [PMID: 16711813 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.73.041511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2005] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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We present a numerical study of the structural correlations associated with gas adsorption and desorption in silica aerogels in order to provide a theoretical interpretation of scattering experiments. Following our earlier work, we use a coarse-grained lattice-gas description and determine the nonequilibrium behavior of the adsorbed gas within a local mean-field analysis. We focus on the differences between the adsorption and desorption mechanisms and their signature in the fluid-fluid and gel-fluid structure factors as a function of temperature. At low temperature, but still in the regime where the isotherms are continuous, we find that the adsorbed fluid density, during both filling and draining, is correlated over distances that may be much larger than the gel correlation length. In particular, extended fractal correlations may occur during desorption, indicating the existence of a ramified cluster of vapor filled cavities. This also induces an important increase of the scattering intensity at small wave vectors. The similarity and differences with the scattering of fluids in other porous solids such as Vycor are discussed.
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- F Detcheverry
- Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Detcheverry F, Kierlik E, Rosinberg ML, Tarjus G. Helium condensation in aerogel: avalanches and disorder-induced phase transition. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2005; 72:051506. [PMID: 16383610 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.72.051506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2005] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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We present a detailed numerical study of the elementary condensation events (avalanches) associated to the adsorption of in silica aerogels. We use a coarse-grained lattice-gas description and determine the nonequilibrium behavior of the adsorbed gas within a local mean-field analysis, neglecting thermal fluctuations and activated processes. We investigate the statistical properties of the avalanches, such as their number, size and shape along the adsorption isotherms as a function of gel porosity, temperature, and chemical potential. Our calculations predict the existence of a line of critical points in the temperature-porosity diagram where the avalanche size distribution displays a power-law behavior and the adsorption isotherms have a universal scaling form. The estimated critical exponents seem compatible with those of the field-driven random field Ising model at zero temperature.
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- F Detcheverry
- Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Adsorption in Controlled-Pore Glasses: Comparison of Molecular Simulations with a Mean-Field Lattice Gas Model. ADSORPTION 2005. [DOI: 10.1007/s10450-005-5938-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Salazar R, Gelb LD. Application of the Bethe-Peierls approximation to a lattice-gas model of adsorption on mesoporous materials. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2005; 71:041502. [PMID: 15903672 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.71.041502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2004] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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We calculate adsorption and desorption isotherms in models of several classes of porous materials using a lattice-gas model solved in the Bethe-Peierls (quasichemical) approximation. Isotherms and fluid density profiles from the Bethe-Peierls and Bragg-Williams approximations are compared with grand-canonical Monte Carlo simulation results. The Bethe-Peierls approximation produces both more accurate adsorption and desorption isotherms and more realistic fluid density profiles than the Bragg-Williams approximation. Details of the application of the Bethe-Peierls approximation applied to a three-dimensionally inhomogeneous system are given. We show that the numerical solution of this theory can be accomplished using a self-consistent iterator very similar to that currently used in studies employing the Bragg-Williams approximation. This iterative scheme is substantially more efficient than the numerical optimization method used in many previous studies of lattice-gas models in the quasichemical approximation. We find that use of the Bethe-Peierls approximation is only slightly more computationally demanding than the Bragg-Williams approximation, and thus recommend it for use in future work on this class of models.
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- Rafael Salazar
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Materials Innovation, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
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