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Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Hexadecane/Silicalite Interfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Edmund B. Webb III  and
Gary S. Grest
Edmund B. Webb III
Affiliation:
Corporate Research Science Laboratories, Exxon Research & Engineering Company, Annandale, New Jersey 08801 and Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1411 [a]
Gary S. Grest
Affiliation:
Corporate Research Science Laboratories, Exxon Research & Engineering Company, Annandale, New Jersey 08801 and Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1411 [a]
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Abstract

The interface between liquid hexadecane and the (010) surface of silicalite was studied by molecular dynamics. The structure of molecules in the interfacial region is influenced by the presence of pore mouths on the silicalite surface. For this surface, whose pores are the entrances to straight channels, the concentration profile for partially absorbed molecules is peaked around 10 monomers inside the zeolite. No preference to enter or exit the zeolite based on absorption length is observed except for very small or very large absorption lengths. We also found no preferential conformation of the unabsorbed tails for partially absorbed molecules.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 543: Symposium W – Dynamics in Small Confining Systems IV , 1998 , 137
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1999

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