Issue 26, 2010

Fluid adsorption in ordered mesoporous solids determined by in situsmall-angle X-ray scattering

Abstract

The adsorption of two organic fluids (n-pentane and perfluoropentane) in a periodic mesoporous silica material (SBA-15) is investigated by in situ small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) using synchrotron radiation. Structural changes are monitored as the ordered and disordered pores in the silica matrix are gradually filled with the fluids. The experiments yield integrated peak intensities from up to ten Bragg reflections from the 2D hexagonal pore lattice, and additionally diffuse scattering contributions arising from disordered (mostly intrawall) porosity. The analysis of the scattering data is based on a separation of these two contributions. Bragg scattering is described by adopting a form factor model for ordered pores of cylindrical symmetry which accounts for the filling of the microporous corona, the formation of a fluid film at the pore walls, and condensation of the fluid in the core. The filling fraction of the disordered intrawall pores is extracted from the diffuse scattering intensity and its dependence on the fluid pressure is analyzed on the basis of a three-phase model. The data analysis introduced here provides an important generalisation of a formalism presented recently (J. Phys. Chem. C, 2009, 13, 15201), which was applicable to contrast-matching fluids only. In this way, the adsorption behaviour of fluids into ordered and disordered pores in periodic mesoporous materials can be analyzed quantitatively irrespective of the fluid density.

Graphical abstract: Fluid adsorption in ordered mesoporous solids determined by in situ small-angle X-ray scattering

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
22 Jan 2010
Accepted
23 Mar 2010
First published
20 May 2010

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010,12, 7211-7220

Fluid adsorption in ordered mesoporous solids determined by in situ small-angle X-ray scattering

G. H. Findenegg, S. Jähnert, D. Müter, J. Prass and O. Paris, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, 12, 7211 DOI: 10.1039/C001541P

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