Francisco Rodríguez-Reinoso

TL;DR: In this article, the adsorption of phenol and substituted phenols, such as 4-nitrophenol, 2,4-dinitrophenols, 4-chlorophenol, and 4-dichlorophenol in aqueous solution, has been determined at 298 K on a series of activated carbons, prepared from olive stones, having a wide range of burnoff (8-52%) and micropore size distributions.

TL;DR: Here it is proved that the appropriate selection of the raw material and the synthesis conditions allows the preparation of carbon molecular sieves with adsorption capacity, on a volumetric basis, highly exceeding those reported in the literature for MOFs.

TL;DR: Granular activated carbons with high porosity were produced from dried endocarp of coconut shell using both physical activation with CO2 and chemical activation with H3PO4 or ZnCl2 as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the adsorption of molecules with different polarity on microporous activated carbons with different amounts of oxygen surface groups, and show that both the microporosity and the chemical nature of the carbon surface affect the adaption process.

TL;DR: A review of the analytical and numerical methods that can characterize the heterogeneity and guest-host interactions involved in terms of discrete or continuous binding site affinity distribution was performed in this article, where the experimental techniques that rely on calorimetric and chromatographic principles to experimentally measure the binding energy and characteristic properties of adsorbent surfaces is also included.