Argon and krypton adsorption on templated mesoporous silicas: Molecular simulation and experiment

Adsorption

Volumn 13, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 425-437

  Hung, Francisco R ^a,f   Bhattacharya, Supriyo ^b,c   Coasne, Benoit ^d   Thommes, Matthias ^e   Gubbins, Keith E ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e QUANTACHROME INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^f LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gas adsorption; MCM 41; Molecular simulation; Monte Carlo; SBA 15; Templated mesoporous silica materials

Indexed keywords

ARGON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KRYPTON; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; MICROPOROSITY; SILICA; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CLASSICAL CAPILLARY CONDENSATION; MOLECULAR SIMULATION; TEMPLATED MESOPOROUS SILICA MATERIALS;

GAS ADSORPTION;

EID: 36649024991     PISSN: 09295607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10450-007-9034-4     Document Type: Article

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