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Individual Liquids and Liquid Solutions Under Confinement

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Small-Angle Scattering from Confined and Interfacial Fluids

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This Chapter deals with applications of SAS to study the influence of confinement on phase transitions of confined liquids and liquid solutions. It describes results of neutron and x-ray scattering studies of various aspects of the confined liquid behavior including adsorption of electrolyte ions in porous carbons, detection of the oil generation in pores of hydrocarbon rocks, and formation of nanobubbles on nanostructured surfaces of variable hydrophobicity. Two competing theoretical approaches that predict how pore induced random disorder may affect fluid behavior are Random Field Ising Model and a single pore model. SAS studies of confined solutions near their critical demixing points have been used to verify theoretical predictions, and explore the specifics of phase transitions in confined liquid crystals and supercooled water.

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Melnichenko, Y.B. (2016). Individual Liquids and Liquid Solutions Under Confinement. In: Small-Angle Scattering from Confined and Interfacial Fluids. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01104-2_9

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