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Diffusion in complementary pore spaces

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The rate of mass transfer is among the key numbers determining the efficiency of nanoporous materials in their use for matter upgrading by heterogeneous catalysis or mass separation. Transport enhancement by pore space optimization is, correspondingly, among the main strategies of efficiency promotion. Any such activity involves probing and testing of the appropriate routes of material synthesis and post-synthesis modification just as the exploration of the transport characteristics of the generated material. Modelling and molecular simulation is known to serve as a most helpful tool for correlating these two types of activities and their results. The present paper reports about a concerted research activity comprising these three types of activities. Recent progress in producing pore space replicas enabled focusing, in these studies, on “complementary” pore spaces, i.e. on pairs of material, where the pore space of one sample did just coincide with the solid space of the other. We report about the correlations in mass transfer as observable, in this type of material, by pulsed field gradient NMR diffusion studies, with reference to the prediction as resulting from a quite general, theoretical treatment of mass transfer in complementary pore spaces.

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  1. Institute of Experimental Physics I, University of Leipzig, Linnestr. 5, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

    Dirk Mehlhorn, Daria Kondrashova, Rustem Valiullin & Jörg Kärger

  2. Institute of Chemical Technology, University of Leipzig, Linnestr. 3, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

    Christian Küster & Dirk Enke

  3. Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Gießen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 16, 35392, Gießen, Germany

    Daria Kondrashova, Thorsten Emmerich & Armin Bunde

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Mehlhorn, D., Kondrashova, D., Küster, C. et al. Diffusion in complementary pore spaces. Adsorption 22, 879–890 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10450-016-9792-y

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