A microscopic mechanism of low-pressure insertion and separation of chain-like molecules in host matrices is proposed. It is shown that the intramolecular correlations combined to appropriate host activities are responsible for a low-pressure condensation of chain molecules. This allows recover a fine structure of the isotherms and to explain recent experiments on the insertion of C2H2 and CO2 guest species. We argue that the mechanism should be dominant in low-dimensional host geometries, where the entropic effects are strongly suppressed and the major factors are the chain connectivity and packing.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0605704,
title = {On a mechanism low-pressure insertion of chain molecules into crystalline matrices},
author = {E. V. Vakarin and J. P. Badiali},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0605704},
year = {2007}
}