TY - JOUR
T1 - Controlled Chemical Kinetics in Porous Membranes
AU - Deshmukh, Shivraj D.
AU - Tsori, Yoav
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the Israel Science Foundation Grant No. 56/14 and the Frankel Family Chair in Energy and Chemical Engineering.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2018/8/30
Y1 - 2018/8/30
N2 - We investigate theoretically the kinetics of chemical reactions in polar solvents in the vicinity of charged porous membranes. When the pore charge (or potential) exceeds a critical value, the pores undergo a filling transition that can be first or second order depending on the ambient temperature, mixture composition, and other parameters. This filling transition leads to a dramatic acceleration or slowing down of the reaction. Such control of reaction kinetics by an external potential may be useful in applications where catalysts are absent or when fast spatiotemporal response is required.
AB - We investigate theoretically the kinetics of chemical reactions in polar solvents in the vicinity of charged porous membranes. When the pore charge (or potential) exceeds a critical value, the pores undergo a filling transition that can be first or second order depending on the ambient temperature, mixture composition, and other parameters. This filling transition leads to a dramatic acceleration or slowing down of the reaction. Such control of reaction kinetics by an external potential may be useful in applications where catalysts are absent or when fast spatiotemporal response is required.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b05175
DO - 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b05175
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85052292578
SN - 1520-6106
VL - 122
SP - 8269
EP - 8273
JO - Journal of Physical Chemistry B
JF - Journal of Physical Chemistry B
IS - 34
ER -