Visualization of gas flow and diffusion in porous media
AUTOR(ES)
Kaiser, Lana G.
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
The transport of gases in porous materials is a crucial component of many important processes in science and technology. In the present work, we demonstrate how magnetic resonance microscopy with continuous flow laser-polarized noble gases makes it possible to “light up” and thereby visualize, with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution, the dynamics of gases in samples of silica aerogels and zeolite molecular sieve particles. The “polarization-weighted” images of gas transport in aerogel fragments are correlated to the diffusion coefficient of xenon obtained from NMR pulsed-field gradient experiments. The technique provides a unique means of studying the combined effects of flow and diffusion in systems with macroscopic dimensions and microscopic internal pore structure.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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