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Preparation of Biomass-based Mesoporous Carbon with Higher Nitrogen-/Oxygen-chelating Adsorption for CuII Through Microwave Pre-Pyrolysis
Published on: February 12, 2019
Nanoscale dynamics of water confined in ordered mesoporous carbon
Kanae Ito1, Antonio Faraone, Madhusudan Tyagi
1Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. sowhsin@mit.edu.
Abstract:
The single particle dynamics of water confined within two ordered mesoporous carbon matrices was investigated in the temperature range from 290 K to 170 K by quasielastic neutron scattering using three high resolution neutron spectrometers. Thus, it was possible to investigate the mobility of water confined in model hydrophobic cavities at the nanoscale. Models developed for the nanoscale dynamics of supercooled water and water confined within hydrophilic matrices were able to describe the collected data but remarkable differences with analogous silica confined matrices were observed in these carbon samples. A significant fraction of the water molecules was immobile on the nanosecond timescale, even at room temperature. As the temperature was lowered, the mobility of the water molecules slowed down, but the strongly non-Arrhenius behavior observed in bulk water and for fully hydrated hydrophilic confinement was absent, which indicates frustration of the hydrogen bond network formation. The obtained results were relevant for applications of mesoporous carbon materials.
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