We have performed ultrasonic measurements on porous glass filled with liquid capillary condensate. Reducing the vapor pressures induces the formation of concave menisci at the pore ends and enables us to vary the adsorption-induced pore pressure in a controlled way [1,2]. Measuring simultaneously the propagation of longitudinal and transversal waves we evaluate the temperature and the...
Photonic colloidal crystals, also referred to as artificial opals, are well-known systems that, relying on their photonic properties, have wide applicability in many fields such as photonics, sensing, light harvesting, etc. Recently, latest knowledge on their ability to adsorb and confine fluids, and correspondingly transduce to photonic response [1-3] allowed to envisage new perspectives...
Ultrafiltration membranes have a wide range of applications from drug delivery to water purification and virus filtration (Dorin et al. 2014; Li et al. 2017). A class of ultrafiltration membranes that has received much attention is the past decade is block copolymer membranes synthesized by self-assembly and non-solvent induced phase separation (SNIPS). These polymer membranes often exhibit an...
Recent progress in extraction of unconventional hydrocarbon resources, in particular shale gas, has ignited the interest in the studies of fluid-saturated nanoporous media. Since many thermodynamic and mechanical properties of nanoscale solids and fluids differ from the analogous bulk materials, it is not obvious whether wave propagation in nanoporous media can be described using the same...
