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Surface Area and Porosity Determinations by Physisorption - Measurements and Theory

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Abstracts:

Heat of Physisortion and the Predictions of Chi Theory. J. B. Condon
article published  in Microporous and Mesoporous Materials.

Recent articles on the subject:

The Chi Representation of Standard Nitrogen, Argon and Oxygen Adsorption Curves
above is the preprint of a published article: J. B. Condon, Langmuir, 17(11) (2001) 3423-3430.

Equivalency of the Dubinin-Polanyi Equations and the QM Based Sorption Isotherm Equation - Part A. A Mathematical Derivation - a pdf file of 505 kB   J. B. Condon - see final article published in Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 38 (2000) 359-376.

Equivalency of the Dubinin-Polanyi Equations and the QM Based Sorption Isotherm Equation - Part B, Simulation of Heterogeneous Surfaces - a pdf file of 198 kB   J. B. Condon - see final article published in Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 38 (2000) 377-383.

Calculations of Microporosity and Mesoporosity by the Chi Theory Method. J. B. Condon, - see final article published in -  Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 55 (2002) 15-30.

QM calculations of Porosity - (a calculation of mesopority compared to experimental data)   J. B. Condon - A poster article from COPS VII, May 26-28, 2005 - not reprinted in the proceedings due to political problems.  A similar article is available from Microporous and Mesoporous Materials about Sept 2005.


The book on physical adsorption:

Surface Area and Porosity Determinations by Physisorption - Measurements and Theory

Dr. James B. Condon, Professor of Chemistry
Roane State Community College, Harriman, Tennessee
 ©copyright - March 1997, all rights reserved. Assigned to Elsevier Publishing

Table of Contents for 2nd edition (a PDF file)
 

Forwards for 1st and 2nd editions (a PDF file)
 

Find all the mathematics of the QM (χ) theory of adsorption in the book:
The 2nd edition is due out in October 2019

book cover

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