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Effect of Pore Size Distribution of Commercial Activated Carbon Fabrics on the Adsorption of CWA Simulants from the Liquid Phase Robert Kaiser,*,† Adam Kulczyk,† David Rich,† Ronald J. Willey,‡ James Minicucci,‡ and Brian MacIver§ Entropic Systems, Inc., Woburn, Massachusetts 01801, Northeastern UniVersity, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, and Edgewood Chemical and Biological Command, Gunpowder, Maryland 21010-5424
The use of hydrofluoroether liquid wetted wipes for the decontamination of sensitive equipment is attracting great interest. Contacting the contaminated equipment with such wipes results in the rapid removal of surface contaminants. Because adsorption from the liquid phase involves larger molecules than those found in the gas phase, the pores in the activated carbon needed to capture contaminants require pores with diameters above the micropore range (diameters
