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Capillary condensation, rreezing, and melting in silica nanopores: a sorption isotherm and scanning calorimetry study on nitrogen in mesoporous SBA-15

Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2012-02-06
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Moerz, Sebastian T.  
Knorr, Klaus  
Huber, Patrick  orcid-logo
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/12802
Journal
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics  
Volume
85
Issue
7
Article Number
075403
Citation
Physical Review B 85 (7): 075403 (2012-02-08)
Publisher DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.85.075403
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84857724401
ArXiv ID
1202.1835v1
Publisher
American Physical Society
Condensation, melting and freezing of nitrogen in a powder of mesoporous silica grains (SBA-15) has been studied by combined volumetric sorption isotherm and scanning calorimetry measurements. Within the mean field model of Saam and Cole for vapor condensation in cylindrical pores a liquid nitrogen sorption isotherm is well described by a bimodal pore radius distribution. It encompasses a narrow peak centered at 3.3 nm, typical of tubular mesopores, and a significantly broader peak characteristic of micropores, located at 1 nm. The material condensed in the micropores as well as the first two adsorbed monolayers in the mesopores do not exhibit any caloric anomaly. The solidification and melting transformation affects only the pore condensate beyond approx. the second monolayer of the mesopores. Here, interfacial melting leads to a single peak in the specific heat measurements. Homogeneous and heterogeneous freezing along with a delayering transition for partial fillings of the mesopores result in a caloric freezing anomaly similarly complex and dependent on the thermal history as has been observed for argon in SBA-15. The axial propagation of the crystallization in pore space is more effective in the case of nitrogen than previously observed for argon, which we attribute to differences in the crystalline textures of the pore solids.
Subjects
Physics - Chemical Physics
Physics - Chemical Physics
Physics - Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect
Physics - Materials Science
DDC Class
530: Physik
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