Raman scattering, x-ray diffraction, and BET measurements are used to study the effect of heat treatment on the microstructure of activated carbon fibers (ACFs) and to correlate the structural changes with the metal-insulator transition observed in the electronic transport properties of heat-treated ACFs. A sequence of events is identified, starting with desorption, followed by micropore collap...

This article describes the electrical characterization of live and heat-inactivated micro-organisms within microstructures. Electrophoretic movement of live and heat-inactivated Listeria innocua on interdigitated fingered electrodes confirmed the presence of negative charges on the live micro-organisms and demonstrated positive or neutral charges on the heat-inactivated micro-organisms. A micro...

The recently developed modified Donnan (mD) model provides a simple and useful description of the electrical double layer in microporous carbon electrodes, suitable for incorporation in porous electrode theory. By postulating an attractive excess chemical potential for each ion in the micropores that is inversely proportional to the total ion concentration, we show that experimental data for ca...

BACKGROUND Solid-state micropores have been widely employed for 6 decades to recognize and size flowing unlabeled cells. However, the resistive-pulse technique presents limitations when the cells to be differentiated have overlapping dimension ranges such as B and T lymphocytes. An alternative approach would be to specifically capture cells by solid-state micropores. Here, the inner wall of 15-...

This paper presents a novel method of manufacturing carbon foams from coals with a bimodal porosity structure (macroand microporosity), by means of a carbonisation process at 450 or 475 °C that produces the carbon foam, followed by chemical activation with zinc chloride at 500 °C. The activation agent influences the development of macroporosity during the foaming step and gives rise to micropor...

Different authors investigated the effects of geometric and energetic heterogeneities on adsorption and on carbon characterization methods. In most theoretical studies carbon structure is modeled as parallel infinite graphite walls that form ideal slit-shaped pores of the fixed widths. In the literature there is the lack of systematic studies showing the influence of pore structural and Lennard...

Micropore filters are used during extracorporeal circulation to prevent gaseous and solid particles from entering the patient's systemic circulation. Although these devices improve patient safety, limitations in current designs have prompted the development of a new concept in micropore filtration. A prototype of the new design was made using 40-μm filter screens and compared against four comme...

Drinking-water treatment residuals (WTRs) can immobilize excess soil phosphorus (P), but little is known about the long-term P retention by WTRs. To evaluate the long-term P sorption characteristics of one Fe- and one Al-based WTR, physicochemical properties pertinent to time-dependency and hysteresis of P sorption were assessed. This study also investigated the P sorption mechanisms that could...