THERMODYNAMIC CONSIDERATIONS OF SURFACE REGIONS: ADSORBATE PRESSURES, ADSORBATE MOBILITY, AND SURFACE TENSION

1955 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Flood ◽  
Max Huber

The flow of water through the micropore system of activated carbon has been described in previous papers as a hydrodynamic flow of liquid water under high pressure gradients due to surface forces. It is shown below that these high pressures are probably real and that the temperature coefficient of the flow rate is closely related to the temperature coefficient of the viscosity of liquid water. Surface tension is discussed.

1956 ◽  
Vol 34 (9) ◽  
pp. 1288-1301 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. Huber ◽  
E. A. Flood ◽  
R. D. Heyding

The flow rates of water adsorbed on activated charcoal have been measured at temperatures between −24 °C. and +35 °C. and compared with the flow rate of adsorbed D2O at 25 °C. In earlier papers a formula was presented which describes the micropore flow rate of adsorbed water as a laminar flow of liquid adsorbate under a high pressure gradient due to surface forces. Our results confirm this picture. From our flow data the relative viscosity of adsorbates can be calculated. Above 0 °C. the viscosity of the adsorbate shows nearly the same temperature dependence as liquid water; below 0 °C. the viscosity increases much more rapidly, but there is no sudden increase which could be ascribed to freezing of an appreciable fraction of the adsorbate at any particular temperature. The greater temperature coefficient of the adsorbate viscosity is consistent with a viscous flow of liquid films over a solid surface which exerts attractive forces on the liquid.


A now method of measuring refractive index in a lubricant point contact is described which allows the density, pressure and viscosity in the fluid to be determined. The viscosity measurements are absolute, only the elastic and optical constants of the glass are needed. Due to the very high pressures developed (1 GPa) in the 0.3 mm diameter contact very large pressure gradients are produced, hence viscosities four orders higher than conventional high-pressure viscometers normally reach, can be measured. Four lubricants tested all showed that the pressure viscosity coefficient dropped sharply above 10 3 Pa s (10 4 poise); the limit of the normal viscometer. One fluid - a polyphenylether - apparently vitrified at high pressures to a limiting viscosity of 10 6 Pa s. Ball bounce is shown to limit the range of fluids that can be tested with this apparatus.


Author(s):  
K. T. Tokuyasu

During the past investigations of immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in ultrathin frozen sections, we found that the degree of negative staining required to delineate u1trastructural details was often too dense for the recognition of ferritin particles. The quality of positive staining of ultrathin frozen sections, on the other hand, has generally been far inferior to that attainable in conventional plastic embedded sections, particularly in the definition of membranes. As we discussed before, a main cause of this difficulty seemed to be the vulnerability of frozen sections to the damaging effects of air-water surface tension at the time of drying of the sections.Indeed, we found that the quality of positive staining is greatly improved when positively stained frozen sections are protected against the effects of surface tension by embedding them in thin layers of mechanically stable materials at the time of drying (unpublished).


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 4277-4286
Author(s):  
S. V. Chuvikov ◽  
E. A. Berdonosova ◽  
A. Krautsou ◽  
J. V. Kostina ◽  
V. V. Minin ◽  
...  

Pt-Catalyst plays a key role in hydrogen adsorption by Cu-BTC at high pressures.


Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (14) ◽  
pp. 4313
Author(s):  
Bronisław Jańczuk ◽  
Katarzyna Szymczyk ◽  
Anna Zdziennicka

Measurements were made of the surface tension of the aqueous solutions of p-(1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl) phenoxypoly(ethylene glycols) having 10 oxyethylene groups in the molecule (Triton X-100, TX100) and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) with Zonyl FSN-100 (FC6EO14, FC1) as well as with Zonyl FSO-100 (FC5EO10, FC2) ternary mixtures. The obtained results were compared to those provided by the Fainerman and Miller equation and to the values of the solution surface tension calculated, based on the contribution of a particular surfactant in the mixture to the reduction of water surface tension. The changes of the aqueous solution ternary surfactants mixture surface tension at the constant concentration of TX100 and CTAB mixture at which the water surface tension was reduced to 60 and 50 mN/m as a function of fluorocarbon surfactant concentration, were considered with regard to the composition of the mixed monolayer at the water-air interface. Next, this composition was applied for the calculation of the concentration of the particular surfactants in the monolayer using the Frumkin equation. On the other hand, the Gibbs surface excess concentration was determined only for the fluorocarbon surfactants. The tendency of the particular surfactants to adsorb at the water-air interface was discussed, based on the Gibbs standard free energy of adsorption which was determined using different methods. This energy was also deduced, based on the surfactant tail surface tension and tail-water interface tension.


Author(s):  
Kun Li ◽  
Junjie Wang ◽  
Vladislav A. Blatov ◽  
Yutong Gong ◽  
Naoto Umezawa ◽  
...  

AbstractAlthough tin monoxide (SnO) is an interesting compound due to its p-type conductivity, a widespread application of SnO has been limited by its narrow band gap of 0.7 eV. In this work, we theoretically investigate the structural and electronic properties of several SnO phases under high pressures through employing van der Waals (vdW) functionals. Our calculations reveal that a metastable SnO (β-SnO), which possesses space group P21/c and a wide band gap of 1.9 eV, is more stable than α-SnO at pressures higher than 80 GPa. Moreover, a stable (space group P2/c) and a metastable (space group Pnma) phases of SnO appear at pressures higher than 120 GPa. Energy and topological analyses show that P2/c-SnO has a high possibility to directly transform to β-SnO at around 120 GPa. Our work also reveals that β-SnO is a necessary intermediate state between high-pressure phase Pnma-SnO and low-pressure phase α-SnO for the phase transition path Pnma-SnO →β-SnO → α-SnO. Two phase transition analyses indicate that there is a high possibility to synthesize β-SnO under high-pressure conditions and have it remain stable under normal pressure. Finally, our study reveals that the conductive property of β-SnO can be engineered in a low-pressure range (0–9 GPa) through a semiconductor-to-metal transition, while maintaining transparency in the visible light range.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenji Ohta ◽  
Kei Hirose

Abstract Precise determinations of the thermal conductivity of iron alloys at high pressures and temperatures are essential for understanding the thermal history and dynamics of the metallic cores of the Earth. We review relevant high-pressure experiments using a diamond-anvil cell and discuss implications of high core conductivity for its thermal and compositional evolution.


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