Langmuir, Vol.16, No.17, 6999-7005, 2000
Percolation effects on adsorption-desorption hysteresis
In the present work we study how the adsorption-desorption hysteresis loop of a mesoporous-disordered medium represented by a three-dimensional dual site-bond model is affected by percolation for different kinds of site and bond distributions. The behavior of the threshold pressure for the evaporation process, as a function of the separation between the site and bond distributions and their dispersions, suggests a method to determine them from experimental adsorption-desorption hysteresis curves.