May 9-11, 2017 Minisymposium: Fluids in Nanoporous Media
organized by Gennady Gor and Patrick Huber at the 9th International Conference on Porous Media (InterPore meeting), May 8-11 2017 in Rotterdam
More information:
We organized a minisymposium "Fluids in Nanoporous Media" at the 9th International Conference on Porous Media & Annual Meeting of Interpore. The program of last year's minisymposium is available here.
The conference took place on May 8-11, 2017, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
This time our invited speakers were Professor Michael Froeba (University of Hamburg, Germany) and Professor Alexander Neimark (Rutgers University, USA).
The scope of the minisymposium:
Many porous media have characteristic pore sizes in the nanometer range. These media include natural materials (clays, coal, and shale), concrete, as well as synthetic materials used for separation, purification, and energy storage. In most natural or technological processes the pores in these materials contain fluids: water in clays and concrete, hydrocarbons in coal and shale, etc. In nanopore-confined fluid, tight spatial confinement and solid-fluid interactions may significantly alter the fluid's physical properties, causing, for example, the molecular structuring of the fluid, shifts of the freezing or evaporation points and the appearance of the disjoining pressure. These pore-scale effects necessarily lead to a change in the parameters of continuum models for fluid transport in nanoporous media and poromechanics; moreover, they also often require introducing new physics in the governing equations. The objective of this minisymposium is to provide a forum for the discussion of all possible aspects of fluid phases confined in nanoporous materials: fundamental and applied, theoretical and experimental.
