The fact that the surfaces of real solids are geometrically distorted and chemically non-uniform has long been realized by the scientists investigating various phenomena occurring on solid surfaces. Even in the case when diffraction experiments show a well-organized bulk solid structure, the surface atoms or molecules will usually exhibit a much smaller degree of surface organization. In addition to the results obtained from electron diffraction, this can be seen in the impressive images obtained from STM and AFM microscopies. This geometric and chemical disorder is the source of the energetic heterogeneity for molecules adsorbing on real solid surfaces. Hundreds of papers have been published showing that this heterogeneity is a major factor in determining the behaviour of real adsorption systems.Studies of adsorption on energetically heterogeneous surfaces have proceeded along three somewhat separate paths, with only minor coupling of ideas. One was the study of adsorption equilibria on heterogeneous solid surfaces. The second path was the study of time evolution of adsorption processes such as surface diffusion or adsorption-desorption kinetics on heterogeneous surfaces, and the third was the study of adsorption in porous solids, or more generally, adsorption in systems with limited dimensions. The present monograph is a first attempt to provide a synthesis of the ways that surface geometric and energetic heterogeneities affect both the equilibria and the time evolution of adsorption on real solids. The book contains 17 chapters written by a team of internationally recognized specialists, some of whom have already published books on adsorption.
Author(s): W. Rudziński, W.A. Steele and G. Zgrablich (Eds.)
Series: Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis 104
Publisher: Elsevier, Academic Press
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 1-884
Content:
Preface
Pages v-xii
Wladyslaw Rudzinski, William A. Steele, Giorgio Zgrablich
Author index
Pages xiii-xv
Chapter 1. Theoretical principles of single- and mixed-gas adsorption equilibria on heterogeneous solid surfaces Original Research Article
Pages 1-103
G.F. Cerofolini, W. Rudziński
Chapter 2. Application of lattice-Gas models to describe mixed-gas adsorption equilibria on heterogeneous solid surfaces Original Research Article
Pages 105-152
Yu.K. Tovbin
Chapter 3. Theories of the adsorption-desorption kinetics on homogeneous surfaces Original Research Article
Pages 153-200
H.J. Kreuzer, S.H. Payne
Chapter 4. Theory of adsorption-desorption kinetics on flat heterogeneous surfaces Original Research Article
Pages 201-284
Yu.K. Tovbin
Chapter 5. Statistical rate theory and the material properties controlling adsorption kinetics, on well defined surfaces Original Research Article
Pages 285-333
J.A.W. Elliott, C.A. Ward
Chapter 6. A new theoretical approach to adsorption—Desorption kinetics on energetically heterogeneous flat solid surfaces based on statistical rate theory of interfacial transport Original Research Article
Pages 335-371
W. Rudziński
Chapter 7. Surface diffusion of adsorbates on heterogeneous substrates Original Research Article
Pages 373-449
G. Zgrablich
Chapter 8. Computer simulation of surface diffusion in adsorbed phases Original Research Article
Pages 451-485
William Steele
Chapter 9. Multicomponent diffusion in zeolites and multicomponent surface diffusion Original Research Article
Pages 487-518
YuDong Chen, Ralph T. Yang
Chapter 10. Energy and structure heterogeneities for the adsorption in zeolites Original Research Article
Pages 519-572
A.S.T. Chiang, C.K. Lee, W. Rudziński, J. Narkiewicz-Michalek, P. Szabelski
Chapter 11. Static and dynamic studies of the energetic surface heterogeneity of clay minerals Original Research Article
Pages 573-623
F. Villiéras, L.J. Michot, J.M. Cases, I. Berend, F. Bardot, M. François, G. Gérard, J. Yvon
Chapter 12. Multilayer adsorption as a tool to investigate the fractal nature of porous adsorbents Original Research Article
Pages 625-677
Peter Pfeifer, Kuang-Yu Liu
Chapter 13. Heterogeneous surface structures of adsorbents Original Research Article
Pages 679-714
Katsumi Kaneko
Chapter 14. Characterization of geometrical and energetic heterogeneities of active carbons by using sorption measurements Original Research Article
Pages 715-744
M. Jaroniec, J. Choma
Chapter 15. Structure of porous adsorbents: Analysis using density functional theory and molecular simulation Original Research Article
Pages 745-775
C.M. Lastoskie, N. Quirke, K.E. Gubbins
Chapter 16. Dynamics of adsorption in heterogeneous solids Original Research Article
Pages 777-835
D.D. Do
Chapter 17. Sorption rate processes in carbon molecular sieves Original Research Article
Pages 837-880
J.M.D. MacElroy, N.A. Seaton, S.P. Friedman
Subject index
Pages 881-884
