physisorption
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Physisorption, also called physical adsorption, is a process in which the electronic structure of the atom or molecule is barely perturbed upon adsorption.
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Modeling by image charge
- Modeling by quantum-mechanical oscillator
- Physisorption potential
- Quantum mechanical – thermodynamic modelling for surface area and porosity
- Comparison with chemisorption
- See also
- References
Physisorption, also called physical adsorption, is a process in which the electronic structure of the atom or molecule is barely perturbed upon adsorption.
==Overview==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “physisorption” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.