Determination of the energetic topography of bivariate heterogeneous surfaces from adsorption isotherms

The reversible adsorption process occurring on patchwise heterogeneous bivariate surfaces is studied by Monte Carlo simulation and mean-field approximation. These surfaces are characterized by a collection of deep and shallow adsorbing patches with a typical length scale l. Patches can be either arr...

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Autores: Centres, Paulo Marcelo, Bulnes, Fernando Manuel, Zgrablich, Jorge Andres, Ramirez Pastor, Antonio Jose
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/14103
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/14103
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Lattice- Gas
Adsorption
Heterogeneity
Monte Carlo
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Sumario:The reversible adsorption process occurring on patchwise heterogeneous bivariate surfaces is studied by Monte Carlo simulation and mean-field approximation. These surfaces are characterized by a collection of deep and shallow adsorbing patches with a typical length scale l. Patches can be either arranged in a deterministic chessboard structure or in a random way. Previous studies showed that the topography of a given surface can be obtained from the knowledge of the corresponding adsorption isotherm and a reference curve. In the present work, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using different reference curves. One of the main consequences of this analysis is to provide an improved method for the determination of the energetic topography of the surface from adsorption measurements.