Structure of liquid and glassy methanol confined in cylindrical pores.
We present a neutron scattering analysis of the density and the static structure factor of confined methanol at various temperatures. Confinement is performed in the cylindrical pores of MCM-41 silicates with pore diameters D=24 and 35 A. A change of the thermal expansivity of confined methanol at low temperature is the signature of a glass transition, which occurs at higher temperature for the smallest pore. This is evidence of a surface induced slowing down of the dynamics of the fluid. The structure factor presents a systematic evolution with the pore diameter, which has been analyzed in terms of excluded volume effects and fluid-matrix cross correlation. Conversely to the case of Van der Waals fluids, it shows that stronger fluid-matrix correlations must be invoked most probably in relation with the H-bonding character of both methanol and silicate surface.
Morineau
Denis
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Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, CNRS-UMR 8000, Batiment 349, Universite de Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay, FranceGroupe Matiere Condensee et Materiaux, CNRS-UMR 6626, Batiment 11A, Universite de Rennes 1, F-35042 Rennes, France. denis.morineau@univ-rennes1.fr
Guegan
Regis
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Xia
Yongde
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Alba-Simionesco
Christiane
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