We report on the interaction of light with a particular class of media--wet gels, which in contrast to sols of nanoparticles possess a macroscopic bulk structure, and which differ from conventional solids by the existence of the internal liquid-solid interface. We show, taking an absorption cross section of trapped electrons from Safrany, Gao, and Rabani [J. Phys. Chem. B 104, 5848 (2000)], that a separation of charges with quantum efficiency as high as 46% appears under the band-gap irradiation of titanium oxide gels: electrons are stored in the gel network as Ti3+ centers, whereas holes are stored in the liquid phase. Under a prolonged UV-laser irradiation, more than 14% of Ti4+ centers can be converted into Ti3+ . Their lifetime can be extremely long and exceeds months at room temperature. The trapped electrons are responsible for a "dark" absorption continuum covering the spectral range from 350 nm to 2.5 mum .
Equilibrium data on the methane + hexatriacontane mixture at (373,
398, 423, and 453) K and on the
methane + squalane
(2,6,10,15,19,23-hexamethyltetracosane) mixture at
(323, 370, 420) K are reported.
The apparatus and the near-infrared absorption method have been
previously described.
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