Comparative Gas Sorption and Cryoporometry Study of Mesoporous Glass Structure: Application of the Serially Connected Pore Model

Autor: Henry R. N. B. Enninful, Daniel Schneider, Antonia Hoppe, Sandra König, Michael Fröba, Dirk Enke, Rustem Valiullin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Chemistry, Vol 7 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2296-2646
DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2019.00230
Popis: 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 growth mechanisms in geometrically disordered mesopore 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 fluid 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.
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