The remaining dynamical degrees of freedom of molecular fluids confined into capillaries of nano to sub-nanometer diameter are of fundamental relevance for future developments in the field of nanofluidics. These properties cannot be simply deduced from the bulk one since the derivation of macroscopic hydrodynamics most usually breaks down in nanoporous channels and additional effects have to be...

We apply a hybrid molecular dynamics and mesoscopic simulation technique to study the dynamics of two-dimensional colloidal disks in confined geometries. We calculate the velocity autocorrelation functions and observe the predicted t;{-1} long-time hydrodynamic tail that characterizes unconfined fluids, as well as more complex oscillating behavior and negative tails for strongly confined geomet...

The prediction of properties in porous materials is of continuing interest in the fields of chemical and materials engineering. Application areas include, among others: (1) the use of supercritical fluids to modify porous materials, (2) physical adsorption of trace components from gaseous effluents, (3) gas storage using microporous materials, and (4) chemical separations using inorganic membra...

1. Introduction For bulk fluids it is always possible to establish the state of the equilibrium coexistence between vapour and liquid phases by putting these phases in contact. In contrast, the fluids confined in mesoporous matrices can reside in different quasi-equilibrium coexistence states for very long periods of time. The transition between these metastable states occurs via changes in the...

We report on the microfluidic induced monodispersed microdroplet generation and assembly in confined microchannels. Two and three dimensional close-packed droplet lattices were obtained in microfluidic devices by adjusting the channel geometry, the fluidic flow rates and the monodispersed droplet size. The droplet packing was mainly caused by the volumetric effect and capillarity in confined mi...