Key words: critical point, phase transition, nanopores materials, optical heterodyning, critical opalescence
The comparative study of optical properties of near-critical carbon dioxide in free volume and in nanopores is performed by optical heterodyning of laser light back-scattering. The universal [(Т - Тс)/Тс]0,63 law for temperature dependence of scattering spectral width is obtained for C02 in free volume, while for C02 in nanopores of aerogel and Vycor glass the significant change of scattering parameters is revealed. No alteration in the critical temperature of C02 (detected by the maximum of dynamic scattering) is found in nanopores relative to free volume; the latter is explained by the effect of adsorbed CO2 layer on the nanopore surface.