A review of experimental work on freezing and melting in confinement is presented. A range
of systems, from metal oxide gels to porous glasses to novel nanoporous materials, is …

Several mechanisms can extend the equilibrium domain of a liquid phase into the solid
region of the normal phase diagram. The causes of premelting, which include surface …

Physics and Chemistry of Interfaces Comprehensive textbook on the interdisciplinary field of
interface science, fully updated with new content on wetting, spectroscopy, and coatings …

We develop a unified and generally applicable theory of solvation of small and large apolar
species in water. In the former, hydrogen bonding of water is hindered yet persists near the …

We review the current state of knowledge of phase separation and phase equilibria in
porous materials. Our emphasis is on fundamental studies of simple fluids (composed of …

As their name indicates, liquid crystals simultaneously exhibit some characteristics common
to both ordinary isotropic liquids and solid crystals. This ambivalence is also found in the …

In this paper, we compare the surface area, porosity and other physical–structural properties
of four bituminous coals from three different coal fields of South Africa determined using …

Tailoring of porous materials involves not only chemical synthetic techniques for tailoring
microscopic properties such as pore size, pore shape, pore connectivity, and pore surface …

Spatial confinement in nanoporous media affects the structure, thermodynamics and mobility
of molecular soft matter often markedly. This article reviews thermodynamic equilibrium …

We report results of nitrogen and argon adsorption experiments performed at 77.4 and 87.3
K on novel micro/mesoporous silica materials with morphologically different networks of …