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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"confined liquid"”.
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Science of Nanofluidics and Energy Conversion
… be effectively mitigated based on a nonwetting liquid-nanoporous material system. The captured energy is stored in nanopores in the form of potential energy of intercalated water molecules for a while, and not necessarily converted to other forms of energy (e.g. heat). At unloading stage, the …
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Nanoscale Liquid Dynamics in Membrane Matrices: Insights into Confinement, Molecular Interactions, and Hydration
… focuses on the fundamental understanding of liquid dynamics confined in polymer membranes. Such knowledge guides the development of better polymer membranes for practical applications and contributes to the general understanding of confined liquid dynamics in various nanoporous materials. …
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The Nanogate : nanoscale flow control
… handling of extremely small samples of gases and liquids has long been a subject of research among biologists, chemists and engineers. A few scientific instruments, notably the atomic force microscope and the surface forces apparatus, have been used extensively to investigate very short range …
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Hydrodynamic drag force in liquids
… different radii and masses have been dropped in liquid helium I and II, liquid air, ethyl acetate, and water. The terminal velocity of each sphere falling in the confined liquid was measured. When falling at constant velocity, the hydrodynamic drag force, D, is equal to the weight of the sphere, …
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Transport and Adsorption in Nanoscale Confinement
Nanoscale confinement can be defined as a space confined by interfaces with at least one nanometer-scale dimension. Objects under nanoscale confinement have a large ratio of interfacial area to volume that makes interfacial properties have significant impact. This dissertation examines three cases …
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Liquid crystal films confined between patterned substrates.
In this thesis, systems of nematic liquid crystals confined between patterned substrates have been studied using molecular computer simulation. The aim of this work, done in parallel with experimentalists in Leeds, has been to investigate the use of chemical patterning as a novel method for …