Hydrogen dynamics in clay nanotubes

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We will study H2 dynamics in the nanotubular clay imogolite whose structure has an external diameter of ~2.5 nm and an inner diameter of <1 nm. The tube length of synthetic samples is about 500 nm, and the walls are made of curved gibbsite-like sheets with SiOH groups on the inside and AlOH groups on the outside. This clay provides uniform sub-nanometer cylindrical pores which are negatively charged and will provide a quasi 1-dimensional environment for the H2, to contrast with the truly 2-dimensional galleries of the layered clay analogues. We can also exchange the counterions, and here will use Mg2+ and Ca2+. At low temperatures we will study the rotational tunnelling, with particular interest in the ~14.6meV free molecule rotation. The fate of this feature is an exquisite probe of the H2 environment [1], while at higher temperatures we expect the onset of quasi 1-D diffusion motion.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079755
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079755
Provenance
Creator Dr Neal Skipper; Dr Arthur Lovell; Ms Jacqueline Edge; Professor Steve Bennington; Ms Zeynep Kurban; Ms Atahl Nathanson
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-05-25T07:08:32Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-05-29T08:35:05Z