CiteULike is a free online bibliography manager. Register and you can start organising your references online.
Tags

Porous anodic alumina for the adsorption of volatile organic compounds

by: Domenico Mombello, Nello L. Pira, Luca Belforte, Pietro Perlo, Gianfranco Innocenti, Simone Bossi, Massimo E. Maffei
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Vol. 137, No. 1. (28 March 2009), pp. 76-82, doi:10.1016/j.snb.2008.11.046  Key: citeulike:5858224

Formatted Citation


Show HTML

Likes (beta)

This copy of the article hasn't been liked by anyone yet.

View FullText article


Abstract

A multi-step anodization and leaching process was employed to produce three-dimensional nanometer scale structured alumina plates, used to adsorb volatile organic compounds (VOCs) dissolved in liquids and present in a gas phase. Nanostructured porous anodic alumina (PAA) plates were observed by means of atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). After exposure to VOCs, PAA was analysed by gaschromatography–mass spectrometry after cryo-desorption through a thermal desorption unit. A direct comparison between PAA and other VOC adsorbing/sorpting systems, such as solid phase microextraction (SPME) and stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE), was performed. PAA proved to be a suitable and inexpensive material for the adsorption of VOCs with adsorbing properties comparable to the more expensive SPME and SBSE.


Plantphys's tags for this article

Citations (CiTO)

No CiTO relationships defined

X There are no reviews yet

X Find related articles from these CiteULike users

X Posting History


X Export records

Privacy Statement | Terms & Conditions
CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. It helps undergraduates and postgraduates. People studying for PhDs or in postdoctoral (postdoc) positions. The service is similar in scope to EndNote or RefWorks or any other reference manager like BibTeX, but it is a social bookmarking service for scientists and humanities researchers.