Comparative Gas Sorption and Cryoporometry Study of Mesoporous Glass Structure: Application of the Serially Connected Pore Model
Comparative Gas Sorption and Cryoporometry Study of Mesoporous Glass Structure: Application of the Serially Connected Pore Model
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DOI:
10.3389/fchem.2019.00230
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发表时间:
2019-04-16
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5.5
通讯作者:
Valiullin, Rustem
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作者:
Enninful, Henry R. N. B.;Schneider, Daniel;Valiullin, Rustem
Nitrogen sorption and melting and freezing of water in a small pore size mesoporous glass with irregular pore structure is studied. The analysis of the experimentally obtained data is performed using the recently developed serially connected pore model (SCPM). The model intrinsically incorporates structural disorder by introducing coupling between nucleation and phase growthmechanisms in geometrically disorderedmesopore spaces. It is shown that, in contrast to the independent pore models prevailing in the literature, SCPM self-consistently describes not only boundary transitions, but also the entire family of the scanning transitions. The scanning behavior is shown to be very sensitive to microscopic details of the fl uid phase distribution within the porous materials, hence can be used to check the validity of the thermodynamic models and to improve the structural analysis. We show excellent quantitative agreement between the structural information evaluated from the cryoporometry and gas sorption data using SCPM.