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Nature Physics 2, 731 - 732 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nphys441

Subject Categories: Materials physics | Chemical physics

Porous materials: How molecules huddle in holes

Siegfried Stapf1

  1. Siegfried Stapf is at the Institute of Physics, TU Ilmenau, 98684 Ilmenau, Germany; on leave from RWTH Aachen. e-mail: sstapf@mc.rwth-aachen.de


The process of adsorption and subsequent desorption of gases in porous materials often shows hysteretic behaviour. A combination of diffusion measurements and numerical modelling could now explain why.

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