Vi. Bogillo et al., DETERMINATION OF SURFACE FREE-ENERGY COMPONENTS FOR HETEROGENEOUS SOLIDS BY MEANS OF INVERSE GAS-CHROMATOGRAPHY AT FINITE-CONCENTRATIONS, Journal of materials chemistry (Print), 8(9), 1998, pp. 1953-1961
The approach for calculating the adsorption free energy and adsorption
energy distributions for a heterogeneous solid surface as the sum of
two uniform functions directly from co-ordinates of the tail of the pr
obe's chromatographic peak is presented and discussed. Distribution fu
nctions are derived from data collected for the series of test adsorba
tes (n-alkanes C-5-C-10 and five polar organic compounds) by means of
inverse gas chromatography at finite concentrations. Average dispersiv
e components of surface free energy and the donor/acceptor components
of the adsorption energy in the monolayer region for the parent and mi
xed Si and Al pyrogenic oxides are also determined and discussed.