Constrained equilibrium as a tool for characterization of deformable porous media
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
A new method for characterizing the deformable porous materials with non-critical adsorption probes is proposed. The mechanism is based on a driving the adsorbate through a sequence of constrained equilibrium states with the insertion isotherms forming a pseudo-critical point or a van der Waals-type loop. In the framework of a perturbation theory and Monte Carlo simulations we have found a link between the loop parameters and the host morphology. This allows one to characterize porous matrices through analyzing a shift of the pseudo-critical point and a shape of the pseudo-spinodals.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0609505,
title = {Constrained equilibrium as a tool for characterization of deformable porous media},
author = {E. V. Vakarin and Yurko Duda and J. P. Badiali},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0609505},
year = {2007}
}