Alternate adsorption process

In 1997, Decher reported a fundamental concept regarding the multilayer nanoassemblies composed of polycations and polyanions [24]. The polymer assemblies were prepared by an alternate adsorption process, as shown in Figure 6.5. If a substrate has an anionic charge on its surface then polycation could adsorb onto the surface as a first layer. Polyanion could subsequently adsorb onto the surface by immersing in a... 

Fig. 6.5 Schematic illustration ofthe alternate adsorption process for nanoassemblies of polyelectrolytes onto a substrate.

Figure 6.7. QCM measurement of the alternate adsorption process of metal alkoxide...

Favor adsorption for small-scale desiccation operations soHd-phase desiccant systems are relatively simple to design and operate (generally are lowest cost alternative for processing small quantities of gas). 

The process of adsorption of polyelectrolytes on solid surfaces has been intensively studied because of its importance in technology, including steric stabilization of colloid particles [3,4]. This process has attracted increasing attention because of the recently developed, sophisticated use of polyelectrolyte adsorption alternate layer-by-layer adsorption [7] and stabilization of surfactant monolayers at the air-water interface [26], Surface forces measurement has been performed to study the adsorption process of a negatively charged polymer, poly(styrene sulfonate) (PSS), on a cationic monolayer of fluorocarbon ammonium amphiphilic 1 (Fig. 7) [27],... 

Alternatively, data points can be collected in the decreasing pressure mode . This procedure is usually applied for the quantification of activated adsorption processes (Reuel and Bartholomew, 1984), such as the adsorption of H2. After the pretreatment of the sample (usually after reduction or reaction, and evacuation for a certain period to remove all the adsorbed surface species) the temperature is lowered to the temperature of measurement. First, a known amount of adsorbate gas is added to the reactor. Subsequently, the pressure in the catalyst compartment is lowered stepwise by expansion of the gas into the repeatedly evacuated reference volume. The adsorbed amount of gas can be calculated for each step. From this procedure, the monolayer capacity of the catalyst can be evaluated. 

Physical adsorption is a readily reversible process, and alternate adsorption and desorption stages can be carried out repeatedly without changing the character of the surface or the adsorbate. Chemisorption may or may not be reversible. Often one species may be adsorbed and a second desorbed. Oxygen adsorbed on charcoal at room temperature is held very strongly, and high temperatures are necessary to accomplish the desorption. CO and/or C02 are the species that are removed from the surface. Chemical changes like these are prima facie evidence that chemisorption has occurred. 

Decher G, Hong JD, Schmitt J. Buildup of ultrathin multilayer films by a self-assembly process. 3. Consecutively alternating adsorption of anionic and cationic polyelectrolytes on charged surfaces. Thin Solid Films 1992 210 831-835. 

Due to its ability to withstand high pressure, its relative low cost, and inertness, stainless steel has become the standard material of columns and other chromatographic components. However, under certain circumstances, stainless steel has been shown to interact with the sample and the mobile phase [39]. The best known example is chloride salt corrosion of stainless steel. Data indicate that nearly all common eluents dissolve iron from stainless steel [39]. It appears that proteins also adsorb to stainless steel [39], The adsorption process is fast, whereas desorption is slow, a result which leads to variable protein recoveries. A number of manufacturers are offering alternatives to stainless components with Teflon -lined columns and Teflon frits. Titanium is being explored as an alternative to stainless steel. A cheaper and simpler procedure is to oxidize the surface of the stainless steel with 6N nitric acid. This procedure should be repeated about every 6 months. 

The general mode of operation of a cyclic batch adsorption process is illustrated in Fig. 8. In its simplest form such a process employs two adsorbent beds, each of which is alternately saturated and regenerated. During the saturation or adsorption cycle, adsorption is continued until the mass transfer zone has almost reached the bed outlet. At this point the beds are switched so that the spent bed is replaced by a freshly regenerated bed, while the more strongly absorbed species is removed from the spent bed in... 

The formation of multilayer structure can be carried out by several ways 1) adsorption on liquid/liquid interface - Langmuir-Blodgett films [5,6] 2) adsorption on solid/liquid interface - alternate adsorption of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes (PE) and surfactants on flat surfaces or spherical particles [7,8], To control the process of multilayer systems formation, it is necessary to under-... 

In this paper we investigate the process of alternate adsorption of cationic polyelectrolyte and anionic surfactant, structure and properties of adsorbed layers depending on different factors (molecular weight of PE, concentration of polyelectrolyte and surfactant, adsorbed layer formation time, the flow rate of the solution) by measuring potential and streaming current using the capillary electrokinetic method. 

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