Adsorption isotherms for neutral organic compounds-A hierarchy in modelling: Part II

Sangaranarayanan, MV and Rangarajan, SK (1984) Adsorption isotherms for neutral organic compounds-A hierarchy in modelling: Part II. In: Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 176 (1-2). pp. 29-44.

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Abstract

A two-state model allowing for size disparity between the solvent and the adsorbate is analysed to derive the adsorption isotherm for electrosorption of organic compounds. Explicity, the organic adsorbate is assumed to occupy "n" lattice sites at the interface as compared to "one" by the solvent. The model parameters are the respective permanent and induced dipole moments apart from the nearest neighbour distance. The coulombic interactions due to permanent and induced dipole moments, discreteness of charge effects, and short-range and specific substrate interactions have all been incorporated. The adsorption isotherm is then derived using mean field approximation (MFA) and is found to be more general than the earlier multi-site versions of Bockris and Swinkels, Mohilner et al., and Bennes, as far as the entropy contributions are concerned. The role of electrostatic forces is explicity reflected in the adsorption isotherm via the Gibbs energy of adsorption term which itself is a quadratic function of the electrode charge-density. The approximation implicit in the adsorption isotherm of Mohilner et al. or Bennes is indicated briefly.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Additional Information:	Copyright for this article belongs to Elsevier Science.
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Inorganic & Physical Chemistry
Date Deposited:	27 May 2009 12:03
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:32
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/20415

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