Probing cooperative jump-diffusion in zeolites: Neutron spin-echo measurements and molecular dynamics simulations of benzene in NaX

Hervé Jobic, Harikrishnan Ramanan, Scott M. Auerbach, Michael Tsapatsis, Peter Fouquet

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Abstract

We report neutron spin-echo measurements of transport diffusivities for perdeuterated benzene in NaX zeolite. Corrected diffusivities from these neutron measurements were obtained for comparison with recently reported molecular dynamics simulations. Experimental diffusivities were measured with benzene loadings of 1, 2, 3 and 4.5 molecules per NaX cage, and at 300, 350 and 400 K. Both corrected and transport diffusivities increase from 1 to 3 molecules per cage, then decrease sharply to 4.5 molecules per cage. The comparison between experiment and simulation shows remarkably good agreement in both the loading dependence and in the overall magnitudes of the corrected diffusivities, with values mostly in the range 10-12-10 -11 m2 s-1.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)307-313
Number of pages7
JournalMicroporous and Mesoporous Materials
Volume90
Issue number1-3 SPEC. ISS.
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 20 2006

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
H.R., M.T. and S.M.A. acknowledge generous support from Raul Miranda at the Department of Energy under Grant number DE-FG02-94ER14485, the National Science Foundation (NSF CTS-0091406) and the National Environmental Technology Institute (NETI), for supporting research on diffusion in zeolites. H.J. thanks the Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France, for the allocated beam time.

Keywords

  • Benzene
  • Diffusion
  • MD simulations
  • NaX
  • Neutron spin-echo

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