(173f) Correlations Between Static Thermodynamic Properties and Dynamic Transport Properties of Confined Fluids: Application to Adsorption and Diffusion in Porous Solids

It is well appreciated that placing a fluid under confinement drastically alters both its static and dynamic properties relative to a bulk, unconfined fluid. However, predicting these changes (even semi-quantitatively) remains a scientific challenge, and thus, there exist fundamental knowledge gaps in a number of areas where confined fluids play a central role. Examples include lubrication, friction, and adsorption. In an effort to understand the impact of confinement on fluid properties, recent work has demonstrated that there exists a robust relationship between static fluid properties, such as excess entropy and insertion probabilities, and dynamic fluid properties, in particular, the self-diffusion coefficient, that is independent of the geometry of the system when the confinement is straightforward. However, such relationships have not been observed for fluids confined near highly attractive surfaces, which are prevalent in many applications. Using Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics simulations in tandem, we apply this combined static-dynamic analysis to models of light gas adsorption in simple confinements such as graphitic carbon materials to systematically investigate the effect of the fluid-material interaction strength on the correlation of static and dynamic properties. We observe that fluids confined in strongly attractive pores display three distinct diffusive regimes when cooled below the critical point. These regimes are directly related to the structural arrangement in the pore, and hence, to the thermodynamic properties of the fluid.