A Poromechanical Model for Sorption Hysteresis in Nanoporous Polymers
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2020-10-01
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Sorption hysteresis in nanoporous polymer is an intriguing phenomenon that involves coupling between sorption and deformation. Based on the mechanism revealed at the microscopic level by use of molecular simulation, a poromechanical model is developed capturing all relevant physics and yielding a quantitative description. In this model, the coupling between sorption and deformation is described by a poromechanics framework. More in detail, an upscaling process from the molecular mechanism is implemented to model the hysteresis through the state change of each element upon deformation. We provide two solutions of the model: a numerical one based on the finite element method and an analytical one based on uniform strain assumption. The results from both solutions agree well with the molecular simulation and experimental results, therefore capturing and describing adequately sorption hysteresis. The developed model illustrates that water forms different structural distributions upon adsorption and desorption. A parametric study shows that sorption hysteresis is influenced by material properties. We find that a softer material with stronger adsorbent–adsorbate interaction tends to exhibit more profound sorption hysteresis. The developed model, which relies on the concepts of sorption–deformation coupling and multiscale modeling from atomistic simulations to domain dependent theory, paves the way for a new direction of modeling sorption hysteresis.
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124 (39)
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8690 - 8703
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American Chemical Society
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03806 - Carmeliet, Jan / Carmeliet, Jan