Liquids with high compressibility
Compressibility is a fundamental property of all materials. For fluids, that is, gases and liquids, compressibility forms the basis of technologies such as pneumatics and hydraulics and determines basic phenomena such as the propagation of sound and shock waves. In contrast to gases, liquids are alm...
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| author | Lai, B Liu, S Cahir, J Sun, Y Yin, H Youngs, T Tan, J-C Fonrouge, SF Pópolo, MGD Borioni, JL Crawford, DE Alexander, FM Li, C Bell, SEJ Murrer, B James, SL |
| author_facet | Lai, B Liu, S Cahir, J Sun, Y Yin, H Youngs, T Tan, J-C Fonrouge, SF Pópolo, MGD Borioni, JL Crawford, DE Alexander, FM Li, C Bell, SEJ Murrer, B James, SL |
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| description | Compressibility is a fundamental property of all materials. For fluids, that is, gases and liquids, compressibility forms the basis of technologies such as pneumatics and hydraulics and determines basic phenomena such as the propagation of sound and shock waves. In contrast to gases, liquids are almost incompressible. If the compressibility of liquids could be increased and controlled, new applications in hydraulics and shock absorption could result. Here, it is shown that dispersing hydrophobic porous particles into water gives aqueous suspensions with much greater compressibilities than any normal liquids such as water (specifically, up to 20 times greater over certain pressure ranges). The increased compressibility results from water molecules being forced into the hydrophobic pores of the particles under applied pressure. The degree of compression can be controlled by varying the amount of porous particles added. Also, the pressure range of compression can be reduced by adding methanol or increased by adding salt. In all cases, the liquids expand back to their original volume when the applied pressure is released. The approach shown here is simple and economical and could potentially be scaled up to give large amounts of highly compressible liquids. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:e0a899ea-1544-4de0-9dee-32ab0b17d9622023-11-08T11:50:42ZLiquids with high compressibilityJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:e0a899ea-1544-4de0-9dee-32ab0b17d962EnglishSymplectic ElementsWiley2023Lai, BLiu, SCahir, JSun, YYin, HYoungs, TTan, J-CFonrouge, SFPópolo, MGDBorioni, JLCrawford, DEAlexander, FMLi, CBell, SEJMurrer, BJames, SLCompressibility is a fundamental property of all materials. For fluids, that is, gases and liquids, compressibility forms the basis of technologies such as pneumatics and hydraulics and determines basic phenomena such as the propagation of sound and shock waves. In contrast to gases, liquids are almost incompressible. If the compressibility of liquids could be increased and controlled, new applications in hydraulics and shock absorption could result. Here, it is shown that dispersing hydrophobic porous particles into water gives aqueous suspensions with much greater compressibilities than any normal liquids such as water (specifically, up to 20 times greater over certain pressure ranges). The increased compressibility results from water molecules being forced into the hydrophobic pores of the particles under applied pressure. The degree of compression can be controlled by varying the amount of porous particles added. Also, the pressure range of compression can be reduced by adding methanol or increased by adding salt. In all cases, the liquids expand back to their original volume when the applied pressure is released. The approach shown here is simple and economical and could potentially be scaled up to give large amounts of highly compressible liquids. |
| spellingShingle | Lai, B Liu, S Cahir, J Sun, Y Yin, H Youngs, T Tan, J-C Fonrouge, SF Pópolo, MGD Borioni, JL Crawford, DE Alexander, FM Li, C Bell, SEJ Murrer, B James, SL Liquids with high compressibility |
| title | Liquids with high compressibility |
| title_full | Liquids with high compressibility |
| title_fullStr | Liquids with high compressibility |
| title_full_unstemmed | Liquids with high compressibility |
| title_short | Liquids with high compressibility |
| title_sort | liquids with high compressibility |
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