Fluids and electrolytes under confinement in single-digit nanopores

NR Aluru, F Aydin, MZ Bazant, D Blankschtein… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Confined fluids and electrolyte solutions in nanopores exhibit rich and surprising physics
and chemistry that impact the mass transport and energy efficiency in many important …

Thermodynamic and Kinetic Transitions of Liquids in Nanoconfinement

S Sen, SH Risbud, MH Bartl - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Core principles of chemistry are ubiquitously invoked to shed light on the nature
of molecular level interactions in nanoconfined fluids, which play a pivotal role in a wide …

Stability and growth of methane hydrates in confined media for carbon sequestration

S Denning, AAA Majid, CA Koh - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Methane hydrates pose potential as both an energy resource and an environmental risk, as
a significant amount of the Earth's carbon is sequestered in naturally occurring gas hydrates …

Characterization of Water Structure and Phase Behavior within Metal–Organic Nanotubes

THL Jahinge, MK Payne, DK Unruh, AS Jayasinghe… - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
Water behavior under nanoconfinement varies significantly from that in the bulk but also
depends on the nature of the pore walls. Hybrid compound offers the ideal system to explore …

Interfacial and confinement-mediated organization of gas hydrates, water, organic fluids, and nanoparticles for the utilization of subsurface energy and geological …

S Mohammed, H Asgar, M Deo, G Gadikota - Energy & Fuels, 2021 - ACS Publications
Harnessing the subsurface geologic environments in an efficient and environmentally
sustainable manner is challenged by uncertainties associated with predicting the fate of …

Dynamics of Guest Water Molecules in Pillared Mordenite Studied by 1H NMR Relaxation

MG Shelyapina, DY Nefedov, AO Antonenko… - Applied Magnetic …, 2023 - Springer
The dynamics of H2O molecules confined in mesopores of about 3.4 nm in size, formed by
amorphous SiO2 pillars separating 2D mordenite nanolayers, was probed by 1H nuclear …

Complex dynamics of partially freezable confined water revealed by combined experimental and computational studies

E Steinrücken, M Weigler, S Kloth… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate water dynamics in mesoporous silica across partial crystallization by
combining broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) …

Nanofabrication of synthetic nanoporous geomaterials: from nanoscale-resolution 3D imaging to nano-3D-printed digital (shale) rock

J Goral, M Deo - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Advances in imaging have made it possible to view nanometer and sub-nanometer
structures that are either synthesized or that occur naturally. It is believed that fluid dynamic …

Giant mechanocaloric effect of nanoconfined water near room temperature

Z Zhao, M Xue, H Qiu, W Guo, Z Zhang - Cell Reports Physical Science, 2022 - cell.com
Using water as a refrigerant for innovative cycle-cooling technology is desirable, since water
not only is economically and environmentally unrivaled, but also owns a latent heat that is …

Pore-scale physics of ice melting within unconsolidated porous media revealed by non-destructive magnetic resonance characterization

N Haile, M Sajjad, Y Zhang, N AlAmoodi… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Melting of ice in porous media widely exists in energy and environment applications as well
as extraterrestrial water resource utilization. In order to characterize the ice-water phase …