Phenol adsorption on closed carbon nanotubes

Agnieszka Pacholczyk; Artur P Terzyk; Marek Wiśniewski; Piotr A Gauden; Radosław P Wesołowski; Sylwester Furmaniak; Aleksandra Szcześ; Emil Chibowski; Bartosz Kruszka

doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2011.05.032

Phenol adsorption on closed carbon nanotubes

J Colloid Interface Sci. 2011 Sep 1;361(1):288-92. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2011.05.032. Epub 2011 May 19.

Authors

Agnieszka Pacholczyk¹, Artur P Terzyk, Marek Wiśniewski, Piotr A Gauden, Radosław P Wesołowski, Sylwester Furmaniak, Aleksandra Szcześ, Emil Chibowski, Bartosz Kruszka

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, N. Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.

PMID: 21652046
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2011.05.032

Abstract

We present the results of systematic studies of phenol adsorption on closed commercially available, unmodified carbon nanotubes. Phenol adsorption is determined by the value of tube-specific surface area, the presence of small amount of surface groups influence adsorption only in very small amount. Phenol can be applied as a probe molecule for comparative analysis of tube surface areas. Tube curvature influences adsorption from solution, i.e., we observe increasing adsorption energy (and slower desorption process) with the decrease in tube curvature. This is in full accordance with molecular simulation results.