Electrostatic, adsorption forces

Wang et al. [607] studied the adsorption of dissolved organics from industrial effluents onto a commercial activated carbon. As illustrated in Table 20, they place emphasis on the pK, pK, or isoelectric point of the adsorbate and state that the pH effect upon the effectiveness of carbon adsorption mainly depends upon the nature of the adsorbed substance. Based on their own work and analysis of the literature, they postulate that maximum adsorption of organic acids and bases occurs around their respective pK , or pKh value, even though they acknowledge, at least as the ionic organic compounds become more complex, that electrostatic adsorption forces between the adsorbent and the ionic adsorbate appear to govern. ... 

Large adsorption area (800-1000 m /g), high electrostatic adsorption force, feed pores of defined diameter classify different molecule sizes (screening effect), pore diameter according to MS-type 30- ca. 100 nm. 

Potential of adsorption maximum and of capacitance pits The pit appears on capacitance-potential curves near the potential at which the molecules are maximally adsorbed. The potential of the maximum adsorption and thus the potential of the pit depends on the mutual competition between the electrostatic and non-electrostatic adsorption forces and the forces which repulse the adsorbed molecules from the electrode surface [37-40]. 

The forces which bring about adsorption always include dispersion forces, which are attractive, together with short-range repulsive forces. In addition, there will be electrostatic (coulombic) forces if either the solid or the gas is polar in nature. Dispersion forces derive their name from the close connection between their origin and the cause of optical dispersion. First... 

Adsorption Forces. Coulomb s law allows calculations of the electrostatic potential resulting from a charge distribution, and of the potential energy of interaction between different charge distributions. Various elaborate computations are possible to calculate the potential energy of interaction between point charges, distributed charges, etc. See reference 2 for a detailed introduction. 

The most frequent type of interaction between solid and species in solution would be electrostatic adsorption (ion exchange), due to the action of attractive coulomb forces between charged particles in solution and the solid surfaces. This process would also be concentration dependent. 

Grahame introdnced the idea that electrostatic and chemical adsorption of ions are different in character. In the former, the adsorption forces are weak, and the ions are not deformed dnring adsorption and continne to participate in thermal motion. Their distance of closest approach to the electrode surface is called the outer Helmholtz plane (coordinate x, potential /2, charge of the diffuse EDL part When the more intense (and localized) chemical forces are operative, the ions are deformed, undergo partial dehydration, and lose mobility. The centers of the specifically adsorbed ions constituting the charge are at the inner Helmholtz plane with the potential /i and coordinate JCj < Xj. 

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Surfactants such as sulfated fatty alcohols may be hydrated to a higher extent than the fatty alcohols alone and thus stabilize o/w emulsions. The eombination of an anionic and a nonionic srrrfactant has proved to be partieularly effeetive, sinee the electrostatic repulsion forces between the ionie surfaetant moleeules at the interface are reduced by the incorporation of nonionic molecules, thus improving the emulsion stability. The combination of cetyl/stearyl sulfate (Lanette E) and eetyl/ stearyl alcohol (Lanette 0) to yield an emulsifying eetyl/stearyl aleohol (Lanette N) is an example of this approach. The polar properties of this srrrfactant mixtrrre are dominant, and o/w creams are formed. In contrast to w/o systems, the stabilizing effect of the surfactant mixtirre is not mainly due to adsorption at the interfaee. Instead, the mixed surfactants are highly hydrated and fonn a lamellar network, whieh is... 

Dissolved polymer molecules can be adsorbed by polymer particles via electrostatic attractive force or hydrophobic interaction. When polyelectrolyte is adsorbed on an opposite-charge particle, the polymer molecules usually have a loop-and-tail conformation and, as a result, inversion of charge occurs. For example, sulfatecarrying particles behave as cationic ones after they adsorb poly(lysine). Then poly(-styrene sulfonate) can be adsorbed on such cationic particles and reinvert the charge of particles to anionic (14). Okubo et al. pointed out that the alternate adsorption of cationic and anionic polymers formed a piled layer of polyelectrolytes on the particle, but the increment of adsorbed layer thickness was much less than expected. This was attributed to synchronized piling of two oppositely charged polyelectrolytes (15). 

AHa for the Adsorption of Alkali Metals. If an alkali metal atom is located at an infinite distance from a metal surface at zero potential, then the heat of adsorption comprises the work done in (1) transferring an electron from the atom to the metal, and (2) bringing the positive ion to its equiUbrium distance from the metal surface (127). In the first step, the energy change is (e0 — el), where is the work function of the metal and I is the ionization potential of the alkali metal atom. In the second, the force of attraction on the positive ion at a distance d from the metal surface, i.e., the electrostatic image force, is e /4d hence, the heat Uberated is e /4do, where do is the equilibrium distance of the adsorbed ion from the metal surface. This distance is often assumed to be equal to the ionic radius, which is 1.83 A. for the Na ion. The initial heat of adsorption, therefore, is... 

Lateral Interactions. Besides the forces between the metal and the adsorbate, forces between the adsorbed molecules may exist and they may welcome or reject the adsorbing ion. To understand them, consider the adsorption of ions on a surface electrode. Now choose one of those ions and consider it as a reference ion. Since the ions adsorbed around the reference ion carry the same charge as the reference ion, electrostatic repulsion forces emerge between the reference ion and its neighbors (Fig. 6.92). These interactions are of long range, and they decay as 1/r. 

It has been stated that zeolites exhibit a distribution of adsorptive energies. This is due to the complex structure within the zeolitic micropores and the strong dependence of electrostatic energies upon structure geometry. A discrete number of types of adsorption sites can be considered the finite number is dependent upon electrostatic and steric considerations. The most strongly adsorbing sites correspond to locations near the cations (SII, Sill, etc.). After these positions are filled, the adsorbate molecules seek positions in the framework structure to minimize repulsive forces between them on the zeolite surface, and at the same time to maximize adsorptive forces with the framework. 

In adsorption chromatography the mobile phase is usually a liquid and the stationary phase is a finely-divided solid adsorbent (liquid-solid chromatography). Separation here depends on the selective adsorption of the components of a mixture on the surface of the solid. Separations based on gas-solid chromatographic processes are of limited application to organic mixtures. The use of ion-exchange resins as the solid phase constitutes a special example of liquid-solid chromatography in which electrostatic forces augment the relatively weak adsorption forces. 

For a better understanding of the nature of the adsorption forces between TNB and the siloxane surface of clay minerals, the decomposition scheme of Sokalski et al. [199] was applied. The results of such energy decomposition are presented in Table 6. They are in complete agreement with qualitative conclusions presented above. One may see that two dominant attractive contributions govern the adsorption of TNB. As it is expected, one is an electrostatic contribution, and the other one is contribution, which includes components that originate from the electronic correlation. The electronic correlation related contributions include the dispersion component and a correlation correction to electrostatic, exchange, and delocalization terms of the interaction energy. 

The observed chaige reversal can prove the presence of two types of the PE adsorption sites on the capillary surface. At low concentration, the electrostatic adsorption of positively charged PE molecules predominantly occurs on the negatively charged sites of quartz surface. Thereafter (or simultaneously), on the surface of a capillary covered with a polymer adsorbed layer, the adsorption of the PE molecules can occur due to the forces of molecular attraction and attraction between hydrophobic sites of polyelectrolyte and surface (e.g. siloxane groups). Their competition with the electrostatic repulsion forces that increase in the course of further adsorption of PE molecules determines the completion of the adsorption and the formation of equilibrium (with the solution) adsorbed layer. 

The surface charge on the metal is defined by the position of free corrosion potential /icon °f the metal with respect to its potential of zero charge Ev/( . When Econ-EPZC is negative, cations are adsorbed and when it is positive, negative ions are adsorbed and this adsorption is electrostatic in nature. Physical adsorption forces are relatively weak and have low activation energy. Some data on the values of zero charge potentials of metals are given in Table 1.22. 

Adsorption of cations causes the electrostatic repulsion between the bilayer membranes. The electrostatic repulsive force Pe(h), which is given by P h) = —dVe h)ldl, acting between two adjacent membranes is directly expressed as (see Eq. (9.26))... 

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