Adsorption by Powders and Porous Solids

Jean Rouquerol is the former Director of the CNRS Thermodynamics and Microcalorimetry Center in Marseilles, France and is now Emeritus Director of Research at the MADIREL Laboratory, Aix-Marseille University, France. He is a leading authority on adsorption thermodynamics, thermal analysis methodology and adsorption calorimetry. Françoise Rouquerol leads a Research team at the Centre de Thermodynamique et de Microcalorimetrie and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Marseille, France. She is also a Senior Professor at the University of Provence, France. Kenneth Sing (1925-2016) was an Emeritus Professor at Brunel University and Visiting Professor at Bristol University, both in the UK. He was an influential figure in colloid and surface science and was co-author of the well-known book Adsorption, Surface Area and Porosity. Philip Llewellyn was Team Leader at MADIREL Laboratory, France until 2020; he is now CCUS R&D Program Manager for TotalEnergie in Pau, France. He is a renowned scientist in gas adsorption and its applications. Guillaume Maurin is a Professor and Team Leader at the Institut Charles Gerhart of Montpellier, University of Montpellier, France. He is an internationally recognized in the field of molecular simulations applied to the adsorption in porous solids. Renaud Denoyel is Director of the MADIREL Laboratory and “Directeur de Recherche” in the CNRS, France. He is a renowned scientist in thermodynamics of liquid and gas adsorption and in characterization of porous materials. Marie-Vanessa Coulet is a CNRS research scientist at the MADIREL Laboratory, France, where she is a renowned specialist of structural characterization and reactivity of porous materials and powders. Isabelle Beurroies is a Professor at MADIREL Laboratory, France she is a renowned specialist of textural characterization of porous solids and adsorption from gas and liquid phases.

1. Introduction
2. Thermodynamics of Adsorption at the Gas/Solid Interface
3. Methodology of Gas Adsorption
4. Adsorption at the Liquid–Solid Interface: Thermodynamics and Methodology
5. Classical Interpretation of Physisorption Isotherms at the Gas–Solid Interface
6. Modelling of Physisorption in Porous Solids
7. Assessment of Surface Area by Gas Adsorption
8. Assessment of Mesoporosity
9. Assessment of Microporosity
10. Adsorption by Active Carbons
11. Adsorption by Metal Oxides
12. Adsorption by Clays, Pillared Clays, Zeolites and Aluminophosphates
13. Adsorption by Ordered Mesoporous Materials
14. Adsorption by Metal-Organic Frameworks
15. Applications of adsorbents