ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

Confinement of Liquids within an Anodic Alumina Support

Abstract: The structure of liquids in confined geometries is of significant interest to many diverse areas, for instance chemical catalysis (liquid-phase reactions inside porous materials), geology (gases under pressure, e.g. CO2), and biology (e.g. the freezing, or not, of water in inter-membrane voids). However, investigation of such phenomena is limited by the very nature of their confinement, the liquid being buried within the material of interest.While neutron scattering is able to probe the bulk material, making it an ideal probe for such confined systems, a second critical issue is the characterisation of the confining bulk at the nanoscale. In order for fundamental information on the confined liquid to be effectively revealed, the porous substrate must be well defined. Anodic aluminas potentially offer such well-defined pores, and so we propose to study common liquids confined therein.

Principal Investigator: Dr Tristan Youngs
Experimenter: Dr Daniel Bowron
Experimenter: Dr Joanna Szala-Bilnik
Experimenter: Professor Chris Hardacre
Experimenter: Miss Terri-Louise Hughes
Experimenter: Dr Marta Falkowska
Experimenter: Dr VINOD KUMAR PUTHIYAPURA
Experimenter: Dr Christopher Cabry

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1710452

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1710452

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

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