Surface Area and Porosity Determinations by Physisorption

Professor James B. Condon of Roane State Community College Harriman in Tennessee received his PhD from Iowa State University in Surface Chemistry. He has had 25 years’ experience working in the Oak Ridge facilities as a senior researcher in the areas of surface physics, solid state kinetics, and electrochemistry. He also worked for nine years as guest physicist at the German national lab, Forschungszentrum Jülich. He has authored about 100 open literature publications and about 500 hundred classified publications in these areas. He formulated the quantum mechanical hypothesis that is referred to as the “chi hypothesis of physical adsorption.”

1. An Overview and Some Uninteresting History of Physisorption 2. Measuring the Physisorption Isotherm 3. Interpreting the Physisorption Isotherm 4. Theories Behind the x Plot 5. Comparison of the x Equation to Measurements 6. Porosity Calculations 7. Density Functional Theory (DFT)