Power Laws in Adsorption and the Characterization of Heterogeneous Substrates
The adsorption of particles with repulsive nearest-neighbour interactions was studied through Monte Carlo simulation on bivariate surfaces characterized by patches of weak and strong adsorbing sites of size l. Patches were either arranged in a deterministic chessboard structure or in a random way. Q...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hindawi - SAGE Publishing
2001-04-01
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| Series: | Adsorption Science & Technology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1260/0263617011494114 |
| Summary: | The adsorption of particles with repulsive nearest-neighbour interactions was studied through Monte Carlo simulation on bivariate surfaces characterized by patches of weak and strong adsorbing sites of size l. Patches were either arranged in a deterministic chessboard structure or in a random way. Quantities were identified which scale obeying power laws as a function of the scale length l. The consequences of these findings were discussed for the determination of the energetic topography of the surface from adsorption measurements. |
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| ISSN: | 0263-6174 2048-4038 |