Thermodynamic and Structural Investigations of Condensates of Small Molecules in Mesopores

Liquids and solids consisting of small, mainly van-der-Waals interacting building blocks, such as Ar, Kr, N 2 , O 2 , and CO, are among the most simple systems of condensed matter imaginable. As we shall demonstrate in this microreview on our work sponsored within the Sonderforschungsbereich 277, these cryoliquids condensed in mesoporous hosts with typical mean pore diameters of 7 to 10nm are also particularly suitable for the investigation of...