ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

Compressible Liquids Part 2

Abstract: Liquids are commonly known to be incompressible. However, a recently invented class of materials called Porous Liquids, which exhibit permanent porosity in the liquid phase, are likely to be compressible. These porous liquids, when under pressure (50-1200 Bar), appear to reduce in volume as the bulk liquid will forcibly occupy the cavities thereby reducing the total volume of the liquid. As the synthesised porous liquids can have up to ten percent free space, there is the potential for these porous liquids to undergo much greater reduction in volume than for conventional liquids (seemingly a 11% reduction) when pressure (300 Bar) is applied. In part one of the experiments we obtained very promising data of the first known compressible liquid. Part two will consist of reanalysing the system to better understand the parameters of this compressible liquid.

Principal Investigator: Professor Stuart James
Local Contact: Dr Tristan Youngs
Experimenter: Dr Deborah Crawford
Experimenter: Mr John Cahir

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1900138

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1900138

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

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