Competition, among adsorbing molecules

The semiempirical model of adsorption chromatography, analogous to that of Martin and Synge, was established only in the late 1960s by Snyder [3] and Soczewinski [4] independently, and it is often referred to as the displacement model of solute retention. The crucial assumption of this model is that the mechanism of retention consists in competition among the solute and solvent molecules for the active sites of the adsorbent and, hence, in a virtually... 

The nanosized anatase crystal is the first model used to study the realistic competitive interaction, competitive for the different crystallographic planes, and competitive among different quinoline molecules adsorbed on Ti02 before the photocatalytic reaction. Using tiiis model and the same methodology, we are now considering the explicit solvent to understand the role of the solvent, the role of the solvation of quinoline near the surface or in competitive adsorption on the surface. We will report the results of this ongoing study in a future paper. 

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