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Micro-Imaging Employed to Study Diffusion and Surface Permeation in Porous Materials

This thesis summarizes experimental results on mass transport of small hydrocarbons in micro-porous crystals obtained via interference microscopy (IFM). The transport process has been investigated in three difffferent materials with difffferent pore structures : the metal-organic framework Zn(tbip) with one-dimensional pores, a FER type zeolite with two-dimensional anisotropic pore structure and zeolite A, a LTA type material with isotropic three-dimensional pore structure.

Mass transport is described in terms of diffffusivity and surface permeability, both derived from the detected transient concentration profiles. The results on intra-crystalline diffffusion are discussed under consideration of the influences of pore diameter and molecule diameter, which are both found to have a strong influence on the diffffusivity.

Based on experimental results measured on the Zn(tbip) material, a new model for the description of surface barriers is developed and proved by experiment. It is demonstrated that the observed surface barrier is created by the total blockage of a large number of pore entrances at the surface and not by a homogeneous surface layer.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa.de:bsz:15-qucosa-104291
Date01 February 2013
CreatorsHibbe, Florian
ContributorsUniversität Leipzig, Fakultät für Physik und Geowissenschaften / Abteilung Grenzflächenphysik, Prof. Dr. Jörg Kärger, Prof. Dr. Jörg Kärger, Prof. Dr. Bernd Smarsly
PublisherUniversitätsbibliothek Leipzig
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typedoc-type:doctoralThesis
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