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Simple model of adsorption on external surface of carbon nanotubes-a new analytical approach basing on molecular simulation data
Adsorption, Vol.16(4-5), pp.197-213
2010
Abstract
Nitrogen adsorption on carbon nanotubes is wide- ly studied because nitrogen adsorption isotherm measurement is a standard method applied for porosity characterization. A further reason is that carbon nanotubes are potential adsorbents for separation of nitrogen from oxygen in air. The study presented here describes the results of GCMC simulations of nitrogen (three site model) adsorption on single and multi walled closed nanotubes. The results obtained are described by a new adsorption isotherm model proposed in this study. The model can be treated as the tube analogue of the GAB isotherm taking into account the lateral adsorbate-adsorbate interactions. We show that the model describes the simulated data satisfactorily. Next this new approach is applied for a description of experimental data measured on different commercially available (and characterized using HRTEM) carbon nanotubes. We show that generally a quite good fit is observed and therefore it is suggested that the observed mechanism of adsorption in the studied materials is mainly determined by adsorption on tubes separated at large distances, so the tubes behave almost independently.
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- Title
- Simple model of adsorption on external surface of carbon nanotubes-a new analytical approach basing on molecular simulation data
- Authors/Creators
- Sylwester Furmaniak - Materials Research Group (United States)Artur P. Terzyk - Materials Research Group (United States)Piotr A. Gauden - Materials Research Group (United States)Peter J. F. Harris - University of ReadingMarek Wisniewski - Materials Research Group (United States)Piotr Kowalczyk - RMIT University
- Publication Details
- Adsorption, Vol.16(4-5), pp.197-213
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 17
- Identifiers
- 991005560455107891
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2010
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Centre for Water, Energy and Waste
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- 2.76 2D Materials
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- Chemistry, Physical
- Engineering, Chemical
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