title: Structural characteristics of modified activated carbons and adsorption of explosives.
abstract: Several series of activated carbons prepared by catalytic and noncatalytic gasification and subsequent deposition of pyrocarbon by pyrolysis of methylene chloride or n-amyl alcohol were studied by FTIR, chromatography, and adsorption methods using nitrogen and probe organics (explosives). The relationships between the textural characteristics of carbon samples and the recovery rates (eta) of explosives on solid-phase extraction (SPE) using different solvents for their elution after adsorption were analyzed using experimental and quantum chemical calculation results. The eta values for nitrate esters, cyclic nitroamines, and nitroaromatics only partially correlate with different adsorbent parameters (characterizing microporosity, mesoporosity, pore size distributions, etc.), polarity of eluting solvents, or characteristics of probe molecules, since there are many factors strongly affecting the recovery rates. Some of the synthesized carbons provide higher eta values than those for such commercial adsorbents as Hypercarb and Envicarb.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 20-031, Lublin, Poland.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tomaszewski
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Gun'ko
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Skubiszewska-Zieba
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Leboda