Memory effect in the adsorption phenomena of neutral particles.

The adsorption-desorption phenomenon of neutral particles dissolved in an isotropic fluid is investigated by using a nonsingular kernel in the kinetic equation at the limiting surfaces. To account for the relevance of a memory effect, three types of kernels in the kinetic equation are considered. Similar kernels have been used to investigate nonexponential relaxation including several contexts such as dielectric relaxation, diffusion-controlled relaxation in liquids, liquid crystals, and amorphous polymers. A suitable choice for a temporal kernel can account for the relative importance of physisorption or chemisorption, according to the time scale governing the adsorption phenomena, and can be the key mechanism to understand the specific roles of both processes. By using a general procedure, the time evolution of the density of particles is determined in closed analytical form. The analysis is relevant in the description of the adsorption phenomena in general.

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