Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol.178, No.2, 571-580, 1996
Overshoots of Adsorption-Kinetics
A new theoretical approach to studying overshoots in adsorption kinetics has been developed in which surface conformational kinetics are introduced onto a solid interface, It is found that these kinetics cause, under certain conditions, an overshoot or oscillation in both the surface concentration and adsorbed concentrations. The criterion for overshoot and oscillation depends on the ratio, epsilon, Of the rate constant of desorption, K-, and the rate constant of the conformational kinetics, K*. Simple formulas for calculating the adsorption over a wide range of time for the kinetic-controlled, the kinetic-diffusion-controlled, and the kinetic-diffusion-conformational-controlled adsorption are derived.
Keywords:DESORPTION