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Jin-Hong Chen1, Chao Liu1, Stacey M Althaus1
1Aramco Americas: Aramco Research Center-Houston, Houston, Texas77084, United States.
Abstract:
Many different methods have been developed to investigate fluid-solid interactions in nanoporous systems. These methods either only work in the liquid phase or provide an indirect measurement by probing the fluid-solid interaction based on a measured property change of the fluid or solid under different sample conditions. Here, we report a direct measurement technique using NMR dipolar cross-relaxation between the nanoconfined fluids and the matrix solids. The method was tested using a methyl-functionalized mesostructured silica saturated with methanol as a model sample. A formal theory was established to describe the enhanced dipolar cross-relaxation interaction between the nanoconfined fluids and the matrix solids. Both the experiment and theory showed that nanoconfinement of the fluids enhances the dipolar cross-relaxation interaction between the fluid and the matrix solids, which can be applied to investigate the fluid-solid interaction for various materials of a similar nanostructure.
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