Mass Transfer in a Nanoscale Material Enhanced by an Opposing Flux

作者:Chmelik Christian*; Bux Helge; Caro Juergen; Heinke Lars; Hibbe Florian; Titze Tobias; Kaerger Joerg
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2010, 104(8): 085902.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.085902

摘要

Diffusion is known to be quantified by measuring the rate of molecular fluxes in the direction of falling concentration. In contrast with intuition, considering methanol diffusion in a novel type of nanoporous material (MOF ZIF-8), this rate has now been found to be enhanced rather than slowed down by an opposing flux of labeled molecules. In terms of the key quantities of random particle movement, this result means that the self-diffusivity exceeds the transport diffusivity. It is rationalized by considering the strong intermolecular interaction and the dominating role of intercage hopping in mass transfer in the systems under study.

  • 出版日期2010-2-26