Enhanced carbon dioxide adsorption through carbon nanoscrolls

Dimitrios Mantzalis, Nikolaos Asproulis, Dimitris Drikakis

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Abstract

Over the last few years, significant efforts have been devoted to exploring the capabilities of carbon based structures for gas separation and filtration. In the present study the layering behavior of carbon dioxide transported through carbon nanoscrolls is examined through molecular dynamics simulations. The layering arrangements are investigated for carbon nanoscrolls with intralayer distances spanning from 4.2 to 8.3 Å at temperature of 300 K and pressures ranging from 5 to 20 bars. Characteristic layering structures are developed around the internal and external surfaces of the nanoscroll for all the examined cases. It is shown that the number of layers, their relative strength, and the starting point of bifurcation phenomena vary as a function of the nanoscrolls' intralayer distance, scroll's core radius, CO 2 density, and gas structure interactions. It is also shown that the number of carbon dioxide molecules adsorbed per scroll's carbon particles is a function of the scroll's surface-to-volume ratio and is maximized under certain structural configurations.

Original languageEnglish
Article number066304
JournalPhysical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
Volume84
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Dec 2011

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