Neon and CO2 Adsorption on Open Carbon Nanohorns

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• 作者：Vaiva Krungleviciute ; Carl A. Ziegler ; Shree R. Banjara ; Masako Yudasaka ; S. Iijima ; Aldo D. Migone
• 刊名：Langmuir
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：July 30, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：29
• 期：30
• 页码：9388-9397
• 全文大小：444K
• 年卷期：v.29,no.30(July 30, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-5827

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We present the results of a thermodynamics and kinetics study of the adsorption of neon and carbon dioxide on aggregates of chemically opened carbon nanohorns. Both the equilibrium adsorption characteristics, as well as the dependence of the kinetic behavior on sorbent loading, are different for these two adsorbates. For neon the adsorption isotherms display two steps before reaching the saturated vapor pressure, corresponding to adsorption on strong and on weak binding sites; the isosteric heat of adsorption is a decreasing function of sorbent loading (this quantity varies by about a factor of 2 on the range of loadings studied), and the speed of the adsorption kinetics increases with increasing loading. By contrast, for carbon dioxide there are no substeps in the adsorption isotherms; the isosteric heat is a nonmonotonic function of loading, the value of the isosteric heat never differs from the bulk heat of sublimation by more than 15%, and the kinetic behavior is opposite to that of neon, with equilibration times increasing for higher sorbent loadings. We explain the difference in the equilibrium properties observed for neon and carbon dioxide in terms of differences in the relative strengths of adsorbate鈥揳dsorbate to adsorbate鈥搒orbent interaction for these species.