Dynamics, flow motion and nanopore effect of molecules present in the MCM-41 nanopores-An overview

Scientific studies on the chemical and physical processes in nanopores from various points of view were started intensively after the first synthesis of MCM-41 in 1992, whose nanopores are regularly ordered and well-defined. Understandings of the fundamental diffusion properties of organic molecules in the nanopores are particularly important in chemical industry. In addition, the molecular transport processes in nanopores have been important problem of long standing interest in heterogeneous catalysis, gas-solid reactions and adsorptive separations. So, the present review mainly focuses on the dynamics and flow properties of the molecules by various techniques to reveal the impressive phenomena which occur in the nanopore of MCM-41.