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    Citation - WoS: 8
    Citation - Scopus: 8
    Pore Connectivity Effects on the Internal Surface Electric Charge of Mesoporous Silica
    (Springer, 2019) Şen, Tümcan; Barışık, Murat; Şen, Tümcan; Barışık, Murat; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology; 03.10. Department of Mechanical Engineering; 03. Faculty of Engineering
    Nano-scale confinements within mesoporous systems develop overlapping electric double layers (EDL) such that the existing theoretical models cannot predict the electric potential distributions and resulting surface charges. In addition, ionic conditions undergo local variation through connections between the pore voids and pore throats. For the first time in literature, we studied the charging behavior of mesoporous silica in terms of the pore to throat size ratio (R-pt) to characterize the pore connectivity effects, in addition to porosity (epsilon) and pore size (H). Both local and average surface charge densities inside mesoporous silica were examined by varying these parameters systematically. Results showed that the magnitude of surface charge density decreased with increasing EDL overlap and decreasing connectivity effects. We formulized this behavior and developed an extended model to predict mesoporous silica's internal charge as a function of porosity, pore size, and pore to throat size ratio.
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    Citation - WoS: 14
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    Size Dependent Surface Charge Properties of Silica Nano-Channels: Double Layer Overlap and Inlet/Outlet Effects
    (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018) Şen, Tümcan; Barışık, Murat; Barışık, Murat; Şen, Tümcan; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology; 03.10. Department of Mechanical Engineering; 03. Faculty of Engineering
    Transport inside nano-channels and tubes is highly dependent on their surface charge properties. While previous studies assume that the charge density of a surface is a material property and independent of confinement size, this study properly characterized the surface charge of a nanochannel as a function of channel height and length under various solution conditions. By calculating the local surface charge based on local ionic concentrations, the surface charge of a nano-channel was studied by considering the effects of both overlapping electrical double layers (EDLs) and inlet/outlet regions. First, the surface charge of silica decreased with the increase in EDL overlap, which is characterized by the ratio of EDL thickness to channel height. Second, the local surface charge showed variation at the inlet/outlet regions where the channel’s electrokinetics was in development. We defined a general entrance length as a function of EDL thickness for the electrokinetically developing part of different cases, after which the surface charge reached its equilibrium value and remained constant. Based on such length scales, we extended the existing theory to include nano-effects. A phenomenological model was developed, which can predict the average nano-channel surface charge as a function of EDL thickness, pH, channel length and channel height.