The microporosity of H-MCM-22 samples, fresh and deactivated by coke during methylcyclohexane transformation at 350 C for 10 h, was characterised by adsorption of nitrogen and organic molecules of different size, namely, p- and o-xylenes, mesitylene and methylcyclohexane. Nitrogen adsorption was also carried out on the fresh sample after pre-adsorption of the hydrocarbons. All of these can fit the outer 12 MR c...
In this work, the adsorption of toluene, methylcyclohexane and neopentane was measured at several temperatures on MCM-41 and MCM-48 silica of similar pore size. The MCM-41 has a hexagonal array of uniform cylindrical pores while MCM-48 has a three-dimensional pore system consisting of two interwoven channels separated by a continuous pore walL The aim of this work is to investigate the effect of the pore struct...
Universal mechanisms of adsorption and capillary condensation of toluene and nitrogen on ordered MCM-41 and PHTS materials are studied by means of high-resolution experiments and Monte Carlo molecular simulations. A molecular simulation model of toluene adsorption in silica nanopores, which accounts for surface heterogeneity, and a hybrid molecular-macsroscopic method for pore size distribution (PSD) calculatio...