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Structure of Water at Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Interfaces: Raman Spectroscopy of Water Confined in Periodic Mesoporous (Organo)Silicas
Benjamin Malfait, Alain Moréac, Aïcha Jani +4
The temperature dependence of the structure of water confined in hydrophilic mesostructured porous silica (MCM-41) and hydrophobic benzene-bridged periodic mesoporous organosilicas…
Influence of Pore Surface Chemistry on the Rotational Dynamics of Nanoconfined Water
Benjamin Malfait, Aicha Jani, Jakob Benedikt Mietner +4
We have investigated the dynamics of water confined in mesostructured porous silicas (SBA-15, MCM-41) and four periodic mesoporous organosilicas (PMOs) by dielectric relaxation spe…
High-resolution dielectric study reveals pore size-dependent orientational order of a discotic liquid crystal confined in tubular nanopores
Sylwia Calus, Andriy V. Kityk, Lech Borowik +6
We report a high-resolution dielectric study on a pyrene-based discotic liquid crystal (DLC) in the bulk state and confined in parallel tubular nanopores of monolithic silica and a…
Thermotropic Orientational Order of Discotic Liquid Crystals in Nanochannels: An Optical Polarimetry Study and a Landau-de Gennes Analysis
Andriy V. Kityk, Mark Busch, Daniel Rau +10
Optical polarimetry measurements of the orientational order of a discotic liquid crystal based on a pyrene derivative and confined in parallel-aligned nanochannels of monolithic me…
Molecular dynamics of glycerol and glycerol-trehalose bioprotectant solutions nanoconfined in porous silicon
Rémi Busselez, Ronan Lefort, Mohammed Guendouz +3
Glycerol and trehalose-glycerol binary solutions are glass-forming liquids with remarkable bioprotectant properties. Incoherent quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) is used to re…
Continuous Paranematic-to-Nematic Ordering Transitions of Liquid Crystals in Tubular Silica Nanochannels
Andriy V. Kityk, Matthias Wolff, Klaus Knorr +3
The optical birefringence of rod-like nematogens (7CB, 8CB), imbibed in parallel silica channels with 10 nm diameter and 300 micrometer length, is measured and compared to the ther…