Doctoral Dissertations
Date of Award
5-2016
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Major
Chemistry
Major Professor
John Z. Larese
Committee Members
T. Ffrancon Williams, George K. Schweitzer, Jaime A. Fernandez-Baca
Abstract
Molecular adsorption of short-chain linear perfluoroalkanes was studied by volumetric isotherm and by molecular dynamics simulation. Isotherms of perfluoroethane, perfluoropropane, and perfluorobutane gas were measured on clean surfaces of the graphite basal plane nanometer-scale cubic magnesium oxide (100). Each system was measured over a range of temperatures, and thermodynamic determinations of the entropies, enthalpies, and heats of adsorption were determined as a result. Potential phase transitions between the surface structures were identified, and the constant-coverage heats of adsorption for each system were determined. Comparisons to molecular dynamics simulations provided guidance in the assignment of phase diagrams, giving insights to the microscopic structural behaviors of the systems.
Recommended Citation
Bass, Nathaniel Keenan, "Thermodynamics of Short Chain Perfluoroalkanes Adsorbed on the Surfaces of the Graphite Basal Plane and MgO (100). " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 2016.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/3648