On the identification of the sharp spike in the heat curve for argon, nitrogen, and methane adsorption on graphite: Reconciliation between computer simulation and experiments

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 953-962

  Fan, Chunyan ^a   Razak, Musab Abdul ^a   Do, D D ^a   Nicholson, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL ENSEMBLE; CANONICAL SIMULATIONS; CANONICAL SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLUID-PHASE; GAS-SOLID; GCMC SIMULATION; GRAND CANONICAL ENSEMBLE; HEAT SPIKES; INFINITE SUPPLY; INTRINSIC CHARACTERISTICS; ISOSTERIC HEATS; METHANE ADSORPTION; PLANAR GRAPHITE; SOLID-PHASE; SUB-CRITICAL CONDITION; SUBMONOLAYER;

ADSORPTION; ARGON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; GRAPHITE; METHANE; MONOLAYERS; OPEN SYSTEMS;

NITROGEN;

EID: 84855866944     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp209512n     Document Type: Article

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