@article{scholars8502,
           pages = {281--287},
       publisher = {Korean Society of Industrial Engineering Chemistry},
         journal = {Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry},
            year = {2017},
           title = {Polyacrylonitrile/magnesium oxide-based activated carbon nanofibers with well-developed microporous structure and their adsorption performance for methane},
             doi = {10.1016/j.jiec.2017.03.014},
          volume = {51},
            note = {cited By 41},
        keywords = {Activated carbon; Adsorption; Electrospinning; Magnesia; Methane; Nanofibers; Polyacrylonitriles; Spinning (fibers), Adsorption capacities; Adsorption performance; Electrospinning process; Freundlich isotherm model; Methane adsorption; Micro-porous structure; Physico-chemical changes; Pseudo-second-order kinetic models, Carbon nanofibers},
             url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85016453819&doi=10.1016\%2fj.jiec.2017.03.014&partnerID=40&md5=da2f3ac6fd86ed5e210ac367398b62a9},
        abstract = {PAN-based ACNFs incorporated with MgO was prepared by electrospinning process followed by appropriate activation process. The addition of MgO caused physicochemical changes in term of smaller fiber diameter with an average diameter of 520{\^A} nm and higher surface area which is up to four times (1893{\^A} m2{\^A} g{\^a}??1) as compared to pristine ACNFs (478{\^A} m2{\^A} g{\^a}??1). Moreover, the modified ACNFs possessed a better adsorption capacity with higher CH4 adsorption of 2.37{\^A} mmol{\^A} g{\^a}??1. From the experimental data, the adsorption of CH4 by composite ACNFs obeyed the pseudo-second order kinetic model with R2 value up to 0.9996 and best fitted by Freundlich isotherm model. {\^A}{\copyright} 2017 The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry},
            issn = {1226086X},
          author = {Che Othman, F. E. and Yusof, N. and Hasbullah, H. and Jaafar, J. and Ismail, A. F. and Abdullah, N. and Md Nordin, N. A. H. and Aziz, F. and Wan Salleh, W. N.}
}