The sorption and desorption of a guest (1,2-dichloroethane) in syndiotactic polystyrene (s-PS) films,presenting three different kinds of uniplanar orientation ((010), (
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10), or (002)) of the nanoporous host
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phase, have been investigated, mainly by Fourier transform infrared measurements. For guest uptakefrom dilute aqueous solutions (e.g., 50 ppm), the sorption in the amorphous phase is negligible withrespect to sorption in the nanoporous crystalline phase. Correspondingly the guest sorption and desorptionkinetics are influenced by the orientation of the anisotropic host crystalline phase. In particular, as forthe guest diffusivity (
D) measured by both sorption and desorption experiments,
D(010)
D(002) <
D(unoriented) <
D(
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10). These results can be rationalized on the basis of previous molecular dynamicssimulations, predicting an anisotropic guest diffusion in the
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crystalline phase.