Published November 15, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Methane molecular motion in clathrate hydrate host framework

  • 1. Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8628 (Japan)
  • 2. Methane Hydrate Research Laboratory, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Sapporo 062-8517 (Japan)
  • 3. Neutron Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195 (Japan)
  • 4. ISIS Department, Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot OX11 OQX (United Kingdom)

Description

Methane hydrate (MH)is a nonstoichiometric inclusion compound of methane with the host framework being composed of two kinds of water cages in a unit cell. We performed neutron inelastic measurements of MH to construct a scattering model of MH. The measurements were carried around 12 K with MARI spectrometer at ISIS in UK and TAS-2 spectrometer at JAERI in Japan. The experimental results show that methane molecular motion can be considered as a free rotor approximately and there still remains some excess peaks less than 10 meV. The origin of these peaks is considered as the localized translational motion of the methane molecule in two kinds of the water cages

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physb.2006.05.188;
PII
S0921-4526(06)01088-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
385-386
Journal Page Range
p. 202-204
ISSN
0921-4526
CODEN
PHYBE3

Conference

Title
8. international conference on neutron scattering
Dates
27 Nov - 2 Dec 2005
Place
Sydney (Australia)

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Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.