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Corrected thermodynamic description of adsorption via formalism of the theory of volume filling of micropores.

Terzyk AP, Gauden PA, Rychlicki G

Physicochemistry of Carbon Materials Research Group, Department of Chemistry, N. Copernicus University, Gagarina St. 7, 87-100 Toruń, Poland.

Based on the series of benzene adsorption and related enthalpy of adsorption data measured on porous carbons that possess various porous structures, we show that the creation of a solidlike structure in pores depends on the average pore diameter of an adsorbent. Taking into account the solidlike adsorbed phase in the thermodynamic description of the adsorption process via the formalism of the theory of volume filling of micropores (TVFM) leads to very good agreement between the data measured experimentally and those calculated from TVFM. Finally we show that the boundary between solidlike and liquidlike structures of benzene molecules in carbon pores is located around the average pore diameter, close to ca. 2.1-2.4 nm.

Published 2 May 2006 in J Colloid Interface Sci, 298(1): 66-73.
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