Freezing in confined geometries
Abstract
Results of detailed structural studies, using elastic neutron scattering, of the freezing of liquid O2 and D2 in porous vycor glass are presented. The experimental studies have been complemented by computer simulations of the dynamics of freezing of a Lennard-Jones liquid in narrow channels bounded by molecular walls. Our results point to a new simple physical interpretation of freezing in confined geometries.
- Publication:
-
Applied Physics Letters
- Pub Date:
- August 1992
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.108461
- Bibcode:
- 1992ApPhL..61..777S
- Keywords:
-
- Confinement;
- Fluid-Solid Interactions;
- Freezing;
- Liquid Hydrogen;
- Liquid Oxygen;
- Porous Materials;
- Deuterium;
- Neutron Scattering;
- Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics