The interactions between four different graphenes (including pristine, B- or N-doped and defective graphenes) and small gas molecules (CO, NO, NO(2) and NH(3)) were investigated by using density functional computations to exploit their potential applications as gas sensors. The structural and electronic properties of the graphene-molecule adsorption adducts are strongly dependent on the graphen...

Advancement in hydrogen storage techniques represents one of the most important areas of today's materials research. While extensive efforts have been made to the existing techniques, there is no viable storage technology capable of meeting the DOE cost and performance targets at the present time. New materials with significantly improved hydrogen adsorption capability are needed. Microporous m...

In work previously carried out in this laboratory it was shown that the nonionic surface active agent polyoxyethylene sorbitan monooleate (Tween 80) inhibited the adsorption of a Corynebacterium diphtheriae phage to its host cell (Groman and Bobb, 1955). During this investigation oleic acid, a known contaminant of Tween 80, was also tested for its ability to inhibit phage adsorption. In contras...

the objective of this study was to assess the adsorption potential of activated carbon (ac) asan adsorbent for the removal of murexide (mu) from aqueous solutions. the influence of variablesparameters including ph, amount of adsorbent, sieve size of adsorbent, temperature and contact timeon mu removal was studied. following optimization of variables, the relation between concentrations ofdye re...

We studied in this work a modified version of the Ziff, Gulari and Barshad (ZGB) model in which the adsorption probabilities of CO and O 2 are site dependent. We employed Monte Carlo simulations to determine the phase diagram of the model as a function of the partial pressure of CO in the gaseous phase, and of the relative adsorption probabilities. For the case where there is no site with affin...

Urban landscape plants are an important component of the urban ecosystem, playing a significant role in the adsorption of airborne particulates and air purification. In this study, six common landscape plants in Beijing were chosen as research subjects, and the adsorption capacities for each different plant leaf and the effects of the leaf structures for the adsorption capacities for particulat...

In order to investigate the effects of pyrolysis conditions and oxidation on the retention potential of ammonium by biochar in aqueous solution, biochars were produced frommixedmaple wood at different pyrolysis temperatures (300, 400, 500, 600, 700 C) and residence times (5, 60, 120, 400, 800 min) and adsorption and desorption was determined. Hydrogen peroxide was used to oxidize the biochars w...

A novel microporous three-dimensional pomegranate-like micro-scavenger cage (P-MSC) composite has been synthesized by immobilization of iron phyllosilicates clay onto a Prussian blue (PB)/alginate matrix and tested for the removal of radioactive cesium from aqueous solution. Experimental results show that the adsorption capacity increases with increasing the inactive cesium concentration from 1...

The surface heterogeneity of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) is studied on the basis of adsorption isotherms from dilute aqueous phenol and dopamine solutions at various pH values. The generalized Langmuir-Freundlich (GLF) isotherm equation was applied to investigate the cooperative effect of the surface heterogeneity and the lateral interactions between the adsorbates. The theoretical is...