Transport Mechanism of Guest Methane in Water-Filled Nanopores

Bui, Tai; Phan, Anh; Cole, David R.; Striolo, Alberto

doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b02713

Title: Transport Mechanism of Guest Methane in Water-Filled Nanopores

Journal Article · Thu May 11 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Journal of Physical Chemistry. C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b02713· OSTI ID:1358639

Bui, Tai; Phan, Anh; Cole, David R.;

We computed the transport of methane through 1 nm wide slit-shaped pores carved out of selected solid substrates using classical molecular dynamics simulations. The transport mechanism was elucidated via the implementation of the well-tempered metadynamics algorithm, which allowed for the quantification and visualization of the free energy landscape sampled by the guest molecule. Models for silica, magnesium oxide, alumina, muscovite, and calcite were used as solid substrates. Slit-shaped pores of width 1 nm were carved out of these materials and filled with liquid water. Methane was then inserted at low concentration. The results show that the diffusion of methane through the hydrated pores is strongly dependent on the solid substrate. While methane molecules diffuse isotropically along the directions parallel to the pore surfaces in most of the pores considered, anisotropic diffusion was observed in the hydrated calcite pore. The differences observed in the various pores are due to local molecular properties of confined water, including molecular structure and solvation free energy. The transport mechanism and the diffusion coefficients are dependent on the free energy barriers encountered by one methane molecule as it migrates from one preferential adsorption site to a neighboring one. It was found that the heterogeneous water distribution in different hydration layers and the low free energy pathways in the plane parallel to the pore surfaces yield the anisotropic diffusion of methane molecules in the hydrated calcite pore. Our observations contribute to an ongoing debate on the relation between local free energy profiles and diffusion coefficients and could have important practical consequences in various applications, ranging from the design of selective membranes for gas separations to the sustainable deployment of shale gas.

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Research Organization:: Univ. College London, London (United Kingdom)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); European Union (EU)

Contributing Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0006878; AC02-05CH11231; 640979

OSTI ID:: 1358639

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1373294

Journal Information:: Journal of Physical Chemistry. C, Journal Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry. C; ISSN 1932-7447

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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