Probing memory effects in confined fluids via diffusion measurements |
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Authors: | Naumov Sergei Valiullin Rustem Monson Peter A Kärger Jörg |
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Institution: | Abteilung Grenzfl?chenphysik, Fakult?t für Physik and Geowissenschaften, Universit?t Leipzig, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. |
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Abstract: | Confinement of fluids in porous materials is widely exploited in a variety of technologies, including chemical conversion by heterogeneous catalysis and adsorption separations. Important fundamental phenomena associated with many-molecule interactions occur in such systems, including a remarkably long "memory" of the past when the actual amount of molecules in the pores dramatically depends on the history of how the external conditions have been changed. We demonstrate that the intrinsic diffusivity as measured by NMR serves as an excellent probe of the history-dependent states of the confined fluid. A remarkable feature of our results are differences in diffusivity between out-of-equilibrium states with the same density within the hysteresis loop. This reflects different spatial distributions of the confined fluid that accompany the arrested equilibration of the system in this region. |
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