The adsorption equilibria of ternary and quaternary mixtures of short linear alkanes, involving methane, ethane, propane, and n-butane, were simulated by using the configurational-bias Monte Carlo technique in grand canonical ensemble in MFI zeolite. The simulation results are in good agreement with the experimental data. The adsorption isotherms in MFI zeolite show that the longer chain component is preferentially adsorbed at low pressures. Its adsorption increases and then decreases as the pressure increases. But the shorter chain component is adsorbed at higher pressures and its adsorption increases as the pressure increases. The selectivity of ISV and MFI is much higher than that of MOR. The selectivity increases rapidly as the mole fraction of methane in the gas phase increases, but the change of selectivity of MOR is not obvious in an methane-ethane-propane mixture. The adsorbed amount in mixtures is in the order of ISV>MFI>MOR.

Heat capacity of the halogen-bridged mixed-valence complex Pt2(dta)4I (dta) CH3CS2-) has been measured in the temperature region between 6 and 386 K. The complex exhibited a phase transition of order-disorder type at Ttrs) 373.4 K, from being arranged in an ordered helical form of four dta ligand planes around the central Pt-Pt axis to dynamically jumping between two orientations. Neither latent heat nor distinct thermal hysteresis was observed for the phase transition, suggesting that the phase transition is of higher-order rather than of first-order. The transition enthalpy and entropy were determined to be

The transport properties, including the diffusivity and viscosity, of water confined in hydrophobic nanopores and nanoslits were studied by molecular dynamics simulations. The results show that the diffusion coefficient in nanopores and nanoslits is markedly lower than that in the bulk. But the viscosity is much larger than that in bulk. The parallel diffusion coefficient is obviously larger than the perpendicular ones. The diffusion coefficient in the channel pore is ever less than that in the slit pore at the same pore width, but the viscosity is larger. The temperature and density affect significantly the diffusivity and viscosity in nanopores and nanoslits. Lower density water exhibits some special characteristics on density profiles in nanopores and nanoslits at lower temperatures, and the density profiles show a change from homogeneous to inhomogeneous as the pore width is educed. Even clusters occurred in micropores.

The azeotropic data of the cyclohexane+2-propanol+ethyl acetate+butanone quaternary system were measured by using a stainless steel azeotrope apparatus developed by the authors at elevated pressures of 101.3, 302.0, 502.0, 702.0, and 902.0 kPa and predicted by using the Wilson and NRTL activity coefficient models with the paired energy parameters obtained from binary azeotropic data of the six corresponding systems. The calculated results demonstrate that the predicted data are in good agreement with the experimental, and the Wilson and NRTL equations are of comparable accuracy in the prediction of azeotropes for this miscible quaternary system at elevated pressures.

Deuterium oxide solutions of schizophyllan, a triple-helical polysaccharide, undergoing an order-disorder transition centered at 17℃, were studied by optical rotation (OR) and heat capacity (Cp) to elucidate the molecular mechanism of the transition and water structure in the solution and frozen states. The ordered structure at low temperature consisted of the side chains and water in the vicinity forming an ordered hydrogen-bonded network surrounding the helix core and was disordered at higher temperature. In the solution state appeared clearly defined transition curves in both the OR and Cp data. The results for three samples of different molecular weights were analyzed theoretically, treating this transition as a typical linear cooperative transition from the ordered to disordered states and explained quantitatively if the molecular weight polydispersity of the ample was considered. The excess heat capacity Cp EX defined as the Cp minus the contributions from schizophyllan and D2O was estimated. In the frozen state it increased with raising temperature above 150 K until the mixture melted. This was compared with the dielectric increment observed in this temperature range and ascribed to unfreezable water. From the heat capacity and dielectric data, unfreezable water is mobile but more ordered than free water. In the solution state, the excess heat capacity originates from the interactions of D2O molecules as bound water and structured water, and so forth. Thus the schizophyllan triple helix molds water into various structures of differing orders in solution and in the solid state.