Influence of reservoir size on the adsorption path in an ideal pore.
We consider the influence of the relative size of the gas reservoir on the states visited by a simple fluid adsorbed in a nanopore of ideal geometry (a slit). We focus on the intermediate states that appear in between the main hysteresis branches comprising gaslike and liquidlike states and we study the adsorption and desorption paths actually followed by the system as one changes the reservoir size. We find that these paths may display discontinuous sections associated with transitions between different nonuniform states. We also discuss the stability of the states in such situations.
Centre de Recherche sur la Matière Divisée, CNRS-Université d;Orléans, 1b rue de la Férollerie, 45071 Orléans Cedex 02, France. puibasset@cnrs-orleans.fr
Joël
J
Puibasset
Edouard
E
Kierlik
Gilles
G
Tarjus