How to Use adsorption in a Sentence

adsorption

noun
  • Heating the grounds produced biochar, a carbon-rich material known for its adsorption abilities.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
  • This helper also encourages even adsorption of perovskite molecules and keeps the chemistry balanced during vapor growth.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2025
  • These masks relied on a canister filled with activated charcoal, which works by a process called adsorption, in which molecules stick to a surface rather than sinking into it.
    — Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Instead, the gases compete with each other, with the presence of one gas actually hindering the adsorption, or trapping, of the others.
    — Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Those impurities may have masked the true adsorption capabilities of the materials.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
  • Found in ion-adsorption clay formations at the company’s Silicon Ridge project, the deposit is of particular significance.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The researchers then examined how different counter anions affect CO2 adsorption behavior.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
  • The research teams are further improving efficiency through advanced catalyst designs and combining them with adsorption materials.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • But beyond 60 mg/L, uptake surged sharply, suggesting multilayer adsorption, where molecules stack on top of each other, enhancing the total adsorption.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This technique is designed to minimize land use and environmental impact, and instead relies on sophisticated ion-exchange and adsorption processes to isolate lithium from brine deposits.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
  • At low concentrations, adsorption increased gradually, typical of monolayer adsorption, where molecules form a single layer on the surface.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Beyond carbon capture, the researchers suggest that these materials could be used in other applications, including metal adsorption and catalysis, due to their tunable surface properties.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The system addresses this by selectively removing carbon dioxide and concentrating the remaining trace gases using advanced adsorption techniques.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Today’s rich variety of igneous rocks forms thanks to complex processes, including remelting, adsorption, and exchange of chemical elements, happening in Earth’s crust and driven by plate tectonics.
    — David Bressan, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • By eliminating those contaminants, the researchers were able to observe a much clearer relationship between anion size and CO2 adsorption performance.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
  • The researchers reported that the material achieved up to seven times higher CO2 adsorption capacity compared to the original raw material.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
  • The carbon nanofiber provides mechanical stability, abundant pore channels, and excellent electrolyte wettability, while the cobalt sites catalyze the adsorption and conversion of polysulfides.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025
  • This approach enhances the adsorption of lithium polysulfides and accelerates their redox reactions, thereby mitigating the shuttle effect and improving overall kinetics.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The chemists redesigned the MOF structure with atomic precision, tuning its desorption profile while preserving its stability and low-humidity adsorption.
    — Dr. Samer Taha, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • After a second pilot test for lithium extraction to produce battery grade lithium carbonate, Neptune started a third pilot test earlier in September to evaluate an adsorption process to recover the mineral from brine water.
    — Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Third, the hydrophobic character of FCOPs drives molecules away from water and closer together, encouraging multilayer adsorption.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
  • According to the study, the PIL using the largest anion delivered the highest CO2 uptake, reaching adsorption levels seven times greater than the untreated starting material.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
  • Unlike conventional carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) systems, which require significant external energy to trap and process gases, the new gas battery converts the energy released during gas adsorption directly into electrical power.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The team revealed that the PDA asymmetric photothermal layer not only effectively addresses the issue of insufficient sustained power generation caused by water adsorption saturation but also mitigates the unstable moisture gradient resulting from excessive water evaporation.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Jan. 2026

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