Revealing the impact of small pores on oxygen reduction on carbon electrocatalysts: A journey through recent findings

TJ Bandosz - Carbon, 2022 - Elsevier
Oxygen reduction reaction, ORR, is an important process affecting the performance of fuel
cells. To be effective, efficient catalysts are needed. Recently, metal-free carbon materials …

[HTML][HTML] A perspective on the microscopic pressure (stress) tensor: History, current understanding, and future challenges

K Shi, ER Smith, EE Santiso… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The pressure tensor (equivalent to the negative stress tensor) at both microscopic and
macroscopic levels is fundamental to many aspects of engineering and science, including …

Current advances in characterization of nano-porous materials: Pore size distribution and surface area

K Shi, EE Santiso, KE Gubbins - … Materials: Theory and Its Application for …, 2021 - Springer
Methods for characterizing the most important textural properties of porous materials,
particularly pore size distribution (PSD) and specific surface area (SSA), using theoretical …

Insight into the mechanism of perfluorooctanesulfonic acid adsorption on highly porous media: Sizes of hydrophobic pores and the extent of multilayer formation

PS Pauletto, M Florent, TJ Bandosz - Carbon, 2022 - Elsevier
Commercial activated carbon (BAX), carbon black (BP2000), and zirconium-based metal-
organic framework (UiO–66) were tested as adsorbents of perfluorooctanesulfonic acid …

[HTML][HTML] Can we define a unique microscopic pressure in inhomogeneous fluids?

K Shi, EE Santiso, KE Gubbins - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The estimation of a microscopic pressure tensor in an adsorbed thin film on a planar surface
remains a challenge in both experiment and theory. While the normal pressure is well …

Exploring the Silent Aspect of Carbon Nanopores

TJ Bandosz - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recently, owing to the discovery of graphene, porous carbons experienced a revitalization
in their explorations. However, nowadays, the focus is more on search for suitable energy …

Microscopic pressure tensor in cylindrical geometry: Pressure of water in a carbon nanotube

K Shi, Y Shen, EE Santiso… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The microscopic pressure tensor plays an important role in understanding the mechanical
stability, transport, and high-pressure phenomena of confined phases. The lack of an exact …

Screening ionic liquids for developing advanced immobilization technology for CO2 separation

Z Dai, Y Chen, Y Sun, Z Zuo, X Lu, X Ji - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Developing immobilized-ionic liquids (ILs) sorbents is important for CO2 separation, and
prior theoretically screening ILs is desirable considering the huge number of ILs. In this …

Comment on “pressure enhancement in carbon nanopores: A major confinement effect” by Y. Long, JC Palmer, B. Coasne, M. Śliwinska-bartkowiak and KE Gubbins …

D van Dijk - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In an article from Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, 13, 17163, it is claimed that the
microscopic local pressure is very high in a certain family of physical systems and that this …

Exploring the effect of surface chemistry in carbon nanopores on melting behavior of water

M Florent, K Rotnicki, N Przybylska… - Carbon, 2021 - Elsevier
The trends in the value and shift of a water melting point in nanoporous carbons of
distinctive surface chemistry were analyzed. The carbons were obtained from sulfur …