After synthesizing Ag nanoparticles and loading onto activated carbon (from olive stone), the adsorption of methyl orange (MO) onto the prepared nanoparticles was studied. In this connection, the effect of experimental parameters such as pH range, reagent concentration, contact time, dosage amount of adsorbent and so on, on the adsorption process were studied. The experimental results were anal...

Adsorption of ammonia from anaerobic digester effluent by magnetically modified zeolite (MMZ) has been investigated using a batch technique and comparison of adsorption isotherm equations. Adsorption isotherm models were utilized to describe the equilibrium isotherms and the isotherm constants were calculated. The sorption of ammonia follows Langmuir, Freundlich and Dubinin-Radushkevich (D-R) m...

Can the sorption mechanism be proven by fitting an isotherm model to experiment? Such a question arises because (i) multiple models, with different assumptions on mechanisms, often fit experimental equally well, (ii) some models [such as Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) and Guggenheim–Anderson–de Boer (GAB)] isotherms that do not satisfy underlying of model, (iii) (such Oswin Peleg) are empirical e...

The incorporation of a prototypical rosamine fluorescent dye from organic solutions into transparent and microstructured columnar TiO2 and SiO2 (MO2) thin films, prepared by evaporation at glancing angles (GAPVD), was evaluated. The aggregation of the adsorbed molecules, the infiltration efficiency and the adsorption kinetics were studied by means of UV-Vis absorption and fluorescence spectrosc...

Some fluoro-substituted liquid crystals mixed with arachidic acid in monolayers formed at air-liquid (Langmuir films) and air-solid substrate (Langmuir-Blodgett films) interfaces were investigated. Molecular organization in Langmuir films was determined on the basis of the analysis of the shape of the surface pressure-mean molecular area isotherm and observations made by means of a Brewster ang...

We report the first synthesis of titanium nitride (TiN) nanoparticles inside the nanoscale channels of mesoporous silica SBA-15. The TiN precursor, Ti(NMe(2))(4) in toluene, was incorporated into the methyl group-modified channels of the SBA-15 powder. The functionalization of pore surfaces with methyl groups generates hydrophobic surfaces that facilitate impregnation with Ti(NMe(2))(4) and min...

A series of cellulose ampholytes (CAms), with substitution degrees of cationic groups (DSC) of 0.41, 0.79, and 1.08, and with a substitution degree of anionic groups of 0.68, was prepared from sodium carboxymethylcellulose by a cationization reaction with 2,3-epoxypropyltrimethylammonium chloride. The obtained CAms were crosslinked by ethyleneglycoldiglycidylether (EGDE) to obtain cellulose pol...

The term sorption is generally used to describe the initial penetration and the dispersal of the permeant molecules into food matrices (Chirife and Iglesias 1978) and, more generally, into all kinds of polymers (Naylor 1989; Tsujita 1992). This term includes adsorption, absorption into microvoids, and cluster formation. When a food matrix is placed in a humid atmosphere, the relationship betwee...