Structural characterization of water confined in MCM-41

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By combining NDIS experiment and EPSR simulation we have been able to show with a previous experiment (RB 720500) two main phenomena for water confined in the MCM silica matrix. First, at 210 K water expands within the pore occupying more homogeneously, compared to room temperature, the available volume. Secondly, the microscopic structure of water changes into a more open and tetrahedral structure which is consistent with a density decrease, and consequently with the recently reported density minimim at 210 K of confined water. We propose to study the temperature dependence of the microscopic arrangement of confined water molecules, by extending the previous experiment to other temperatures in the range 190 - 260 K.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24068918
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24068918
Provenance
Creator Professor Alan Soper; Professor Maria Antonietta Ricci; Professor Fabio Bruni; Dr Rosaria Mancinelli
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-06-08T09:22:27Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-06-15T21:44:28Z