scholarly journals Pore-Mouth Structure of Highly Agglomerated Detonation Nanodiamonds

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 2772
Author(s):  
Elda Zoraida Piña-Salazar ◽  
Kento Sagisaka ◽  
Takuya Hayashi ◽  
Yoshiyuki Hattori ◽  
Toshio Sakai ◽  
...  

Detonation nanodiamond aggregates contain water that is removed by thermal treatments in vacuo, leaving available pores for the adsorption of target molecules. A hard hydrogel of detonation nanodiamonds was thermally treated at 423 K for 2 h, 10 h, and 52 h in vacuo to determine the intensive water adsorption sites and clarify the hygroscopic nature of nanodiamonds. Nanodiamond aggregates heated for long periods in vacuo agglomerate due to the removal of structural water molecules through the shrinkage and/or collapse of the pores. The agglomerated nanodiamond structure that results from long heating periods decreases the nitrogen adsorption but increases the water adsorption by 40%. Nanodiamonds heated for long times possess ultramicropores <0.4 nm in diameter in which only water molecules can be adsorbed, and the characteristic mouth-shaped mesopores adsorb 60% more water than nitrogen. The pore mouth controls the adsorption in the mesopores. Long-term dehydration partially distorts the pore mouth, decreasing the nitrogen adsorption. Furthermore, the nitrogen adsorbed at the pore mouth suppresses additional nitrogen adsorption. Consequently, the mesopores are not fully accessible to nitrogen molecules because the pore entrances are blocked by polar groups. Thus, mildly oxidized detonation nanodiamond particles can show a unique molecular sieving behavior.

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (a1) ◽  
pp. C1240-C1240
Author(s):  
Felipe Gándara ◽  
Hiroyasu Furukawa ◽  
Zhang Yue-Biao ◽  
Juncong Jiang ◽  
Wendy Queen ◽  
...  

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) based on zirconium secondary building units (SBUs) have proven to have great thermal and chemical stability,[1,2] which make them ideal for their use in different applications. We have prepared a series of six new MOFs made from the Zr6O4(OH)4(-CO2)nsecondary building units (n = 6, 8, 10, or 12) and variously shaped carboxyl organic linkers to make extended porous frameworks, with the aim of studying their performance as water adsorbents. Thus, we have evaluated the water adsorption properties of these new MOFs and other reported porous materials to identify the compounds with the most promising materials for use in applications such as thermal batteries or delivery of drinking water in remote areas. An X-ray single-crystal and a powder neutron diffraction study reveal the position of the water adsorption sites in one of the best performing materials, and highlight the importance of the intermolecular interactions between adsorbed water molecules within the pores.


1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 75-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.S. Barton ◽  
M.J.B. Evans ◽  
J.A.F. Macdonald

A series of oxidized carbons has been prepared by treatment of the carbon with concentrated nitric acid at various temperatures, and the surface and adsorption properties of the prepared carbons studied. Water adsorption was modelled using a recently derived equation capable of predicting a value for the primary adsorption sites on the surface of a microporous carbon while fitting the experimentally determined isotherm at high relative pressures. The concentration of primary sites was seen to increase with increasing temperature of oxidation. The very highly oxidized carbon samples were found to have a significantly lower BET surface area determined from nitrogen desorption at 77 K and higher apparent density measured from mercury displacement.


2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 425-436
Author(s):  
Toshinori Mori ◽  
Yasushige Kuroda ◽  
Ryotaro Kumashiro ◽  
Koji Hirata ◽  
Hidehiro Toyota ◽  
...  

Interactions between the surfaces of alkaline earth fluorides (CaF2, SrF2 and BaF2) and water molecules were investigated by calorimetric and spectroscopic methods. The exposed surfaces of the alkaline earth fluoride samples, with which the (100) crystalline plane is mainly associated, were found to be fully covered with strongly adsorbed water molecules, resulting in characteristic IR bands at 3684, 2561, 1947 and 1000 cm−1, respectively. This surface was homogeneous towards further water adsorption. The strongly adsorbed water molecules were almost completely desorbed from the surface on evacuating the sample up to 473 K. The heat of immersion in water also increased with increasing pretreatment temperature; this may be attributed to surface rehydration of the alkaline earth fluorides. The state of the surface changed drastically as the pretreatment temperature was increased and stabilized towards incoming water molecules. Thus, the surface formed after evacuation at temperatures greater than 473 K was resistant to hydration even after immersion in water at room temperature. This surface was relatively heterogeneous towards water adsorption, although it behaved homogeneously towards argon adsorption. These facts indicate that strongly adsorbed water molecules appear to be somewhat specific towards the adsorption of further incoming water molecules. The adsorption properties of the (100) plane of alkaline earth fluorides towards water and argon molecules depend strongly on both the electrostatic field strength and the extent of rehydration of the alkaline earth fluoride surface.


Author(s):  
Julian Heske ◽  
Ralf Walczak ◽  
Jan Dirk Epping ◽  
Sol Youk ◽  
Sudhir Kumar Sahoo ◽  
...  

The interaction between water molecules and surfaces in porous systems is of huge importance in various fields including but not limited to catalysis, adsorption, and the storage or conversion of...


Plants ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1107
Author(s):  
Wakana A. Azuma ◽  
Satoru Nakashima ◽  
Eri Yamakita ◽  
Tamihisa Ohta

Leaf water storage is a complex interaction between live tissue properties (anatomy and physiology) and physicochemical properties of biomolecules and water. How leaves adsorb water molecules based on interactions between biomolecules and water, including hydrogen bonding, challenges our understanding of hydraulic acclimation in tall trees where leaves are exposed to more water stress. Here, we used infrared (IR) microspectroscopy with changing relative humidity (RH) on leaves of tall Cryptomeria japonica trees. OH band areas correlating with water content were larger for treetop (52 m) than for lower-crown (19 m) leaves, regardless of relative humidity (RH). This high water adsorption in treetop leaves was not explained by polysaccharides such as Ca-bridged pectin, but could be attributed to the greater cross-sectional area of the transfusion tissue. In both treetop and lower-crown leaves, the band areas of long (free water: around 3550 cm−1) and short (bound water: around 3200 cm−1) hydrogen bonding OH components showed similar increases with increasing RH, while the band area of free water was larger at the treetop leaves regardless of RH. Free water molecules with longer H bonds were considered to be adsorbed loosely to hydrophobic CH surfaces of polysaccharides in the leaf-cross sections.


Minerals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 344
Author(s):  
Svetlana Bortnikova ◽  
Natalya Abrosimova ◽  
Nataliya Yurkevich ◽  
Valentina Zvereva ◽  
Anna Devyatova ◽  
...  

This paper demonstrates the results of experiments for the determination of the composition of gases during the dehydration of sulfates (Na-jarosite, melanterite, and chalcanthite) collected at the surface of pyrometallurgical waste heaps. The volatilization of various elements, and vapor–gas phase transport from three sulfate groups were investigated by stepwise laboratory heating at 45, 55, and 65 °C. The sample of yellow efflorescence mainly consisted of Na-jarosite, the white efflorescence contained melanterite as the major mineral, and the blue efflorescence sample consisted of chalcanthite. These all contained a few impurities up to 5 %. The highest total dissolved solids (TDS) was found in the gas condensates from melanterite (59 mg/L), followed by chalcanthite (29 mg/L) and Na-jarosite (17 mg/L). It was determined that major and trace elements in the condensate can be trapped by water vapor and can migrate with the vapor phase during the desorption and dehydration of hydrous sulfates. X-ray diffractograms showed that Na-jarosite remained stable throughout the temperature range, whilst the separation of melanterite’s structural water occurred at 40 °C, and chalcanthite completely lost two water molecules at 50 °C. The gas condensates contained acetates and formates, which could be the fermentation products of bacterial communities. Some of the strains—Micrococcaceae sp., Bacillus sp., and Microbacteriaceae sp.—were cultivated.


e-Polymers ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Mucha ◽  
Kazimierz Wańkowicz ◽  
Jacek Balcerzak

AbstractChitosan (CH) and hydroxypropylcellulose (HPC) adsorb water easily by hydrogen bonds formed with hydroxyl and amide groups present in their structures. Heat of adsorption is a thermodynamic parameter which is used to estimate the type of adsorbate molecule bond on a solid surface, among the others. Adsorption of water from vapour phase on chitosan, hydroxypropylcellulose and blends of both biopolymers in the form of films were carried out. Isotherms of water adsorption in the samples were described by the GAB equation. Correlations between mass fraction of chitosan in the sample (wf) and the values of GAB coefficients were obtained. From parameter c in the GAB equation mean heat of adsorption of the first monomolecular layer of water molecules E1, and pure molar heat of adsorption q were determined.


2008 ◽  
Vol 1145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun-Chul Oh ◽  
Hwa-Il Seo ◽  
Yeong-Cheol Kim

AbstractThe adsorption and dissociation behavior of water molecule below and above the critical dissociation temperatures were studied by first principles calculations. We found that water-molecule adsorption (surface coverage, θ=0.25) on the down Si atom of a Si dimer in two dimers surface model was 0.26 eV more favorable than that on the up Si atom. The activation energies of water molecule on the down Si atom for interdimer and intradimer dissociations were 0.17 eV and 0.20 eV, respectively. Due to the lower activation energy, the water molecule splits into H and OH immediately once it adsorbs on down Si atom of the Si (001) surface at room temperature. There were three different adsorption sites among four sites of the two dimers for the second water molecule (θ=0.5): one was preoccupied by OH of the first water molecule; up Si atom of the same-dimer with 76.3 % probability, up Si atom of the adjacent-dimer with 23.6 % probability, and down Si atom of the adjacent-dimer with 0.1 % probability. Thus, ½ monolayer of OH sites on the Si (001) surface are irregularly distributed when water molecules are adsorbed and dissociated at room temperature.


2014 ◽  
Vol 931-932 ◽  
pp. 421-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Son Tung Pham ◽  
William Prince

The objective of this work was to examine the microstructural changes caused by the carbonation of normal mortar. Samples were prepared and subjected to accelerated carbonation at 20°C, 65% relative humidity and 20% CO2concentration. The evolutions of the pore size distribution and the specific surface area during carbonation were calculated from the adsorption - desorption isotherms of water vapour and nitrogen. Conflicts observed in the results showed that the porous domains explored by these two methods are not the same due to the difference in molecular sizes of nitrogen and water. These two techniques therefore help to complementarily evaluate the effects of carbonation. The study also helped to explain why results in the literature diverge greatly on the influence of carbonation on specific surface area.


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