title: Staggered alignment of quadrupolar molecules inside carbon nanotubes.
abstract: Grand canonical Monte Carlo molecular simulations of the adsorption of three quadrupolar moleculesnitrogen (N(2)), carbon dioxide (CO(2)), and perfluoroethane (C(2)F(6))within single walled carbon nanotubes are reported. A unique slanted ordering is seen in the nanotubular systems (1-D geometry) which has not been reported before nor is present in slit nanopores (2-D geometry), and is due to the particular combination of steric effects and the unique anisotropic attraction experienced by these fluids.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK. e.muller@imperial.ac.uk
authors.forename: Erich A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Müller