The adsorption of atomic oxygen and its inclusion into subsurface sites on Ag(210) and Ag(410) surfaces have been investigated using density functional theory. We find that—in the absence of adatoms on the first metal layer—subsurface adsorption results in strong lattice distortion which makes it energetically unfavoured. However subsurface sites are significantly stabilised when a sufficient a...

The adsorption of the lactonic (LS) and acidic (AS) forms of sophorolipid and their mixtures with the anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate (LAS) has been measured at the air/water interface by neutron reflectivity, NR. The AS and LS sophorolipids adsorb with Langmuir-like adsorption isotherms. The more hydrophobic LS is more surface active than the AS, with a lower critical micel...

The electrosorption behaviour of non-ionic surfactant: N-decanoyl-N-methylglucamine on mercury electrode in 1 mol dm−3 NaClO4 solution was determined. The values of the relative surface excess were determined on the basis of double layer differential capacity. A set of parameters of maximal adsorption and the constants of Frumkin, modified Flory-Huggins and virial adsorption isotherms were obta...

We have performed periodic density functional and periodic local MP2 calculations for the adsorption of hydrogen fluoride and water on the four low index surfaces (001), (100), (101) and (110) of magnesium fluoride. While the adsorption of HF is described well using B3LYP, MP2 is required for a good description of the adsorption of H2O. Post-optimization dispersion corrections of B3LYP are foun...

Carbon nanotubes have shown great potential as effective adsorbents for hydrophobic organic contaminants in water treatment. The present study investigated the influence of aqueous solution chemistry on the adsorption of tetracycline to carbon nanotubes. Specifically, the effects of ionic strength (NaCl and CaCl(2) ) and presence of Cu(2+) ion (7.5 mg/L) or dissolved soil or coal humic acids (5...

Adsorption of organic foulants on nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO) membrane surfaces strongly affects subsequent fouling behavior by modifying the membrane surface. In this study, impact on organic foulant adsorption of specific chemistries including those in commercial thin-film composite membranes was investigated using self-assembled monolayers with seven different ending chemica...

The adsorption of sodiumdodecyl sulfate (SDS) on gold surfaces coveredwith self-assembledmonolayers (SAMs) of thiols made with either hexadecyl mercaptan or 2-aminoethanethiol hydrochloride was investigated by probing the surface charge. This was accomplished by determining the force between a modified (with a negatively charged silica sphere) tip of an atomic forcemicroscope and the surface as...

in order to increase the water content and the oxygen permeability of hydrogels used in themanufacture of contact lenses, the polar monomer silicon hydrogel contact lenses (shcl), and 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (hema) were copolymerized with the hydrogels. due to the presence ofpolar monomers in the conventional contact lenses, the major component of the human tear,lysozyme is extensively adso...

The dynamics of ethylene adsorption on the Si(001) surface was investigated by means of molecular beam techniques. A constant decrease of initial sticking probability s(0) was observed with increasing kinetic energy indicating a non-activated adsorption channel. With increasing surface temperature, s(0) decreases as well, pointing towards adsorption via a precursor state. Quantitative evaluatio...

In this paper, the surface stoichiometry, acid-base properties as well as the adsorption of xanthate at ZnS surfaces were studied by means of potentiometric titration, adsorption and solution speciation modeling. The surface proton binding site was determined by using Gran plot to evaluate the potentiometric titration data. Testing results implied that for stoichiometric surfaces of zinc sulfid...