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It was hypothesized that progressive activation increased the average micropore size and specific surface area and that adsorption at low concentrations depends not on the available specific surface area but on the average micropore size. This work was extended to examines the adsorption properties of the same series of progressively activated ACF in a packed-bed configuration with n-butane. The same counter-intuitive relationship was observed with the breakthrough time indicating that the lower surface area ACF has superior adsorption properties for low concentrations of n-butane compared to the higher surface area ACF. Gas adsorption isotherms of acetone, benzene, n-butane and nitrogen onto a series of progressively activated carbon fibers (ACF) were used to determine the average micropore size of these highly porous materials using the Dubinin-Astakhov (DA) equation and Dubinin and Plavnik's relationship between micropore size and adsorption energy. The micropore sizes increased with progressively increased activation duration, as hypothesized, and ranged from 0.48 nm to 0.81 nm for this series of ACF. Finally, chemically tailored surfaces were prepared to develop systems that have a chemical selectivity toward specific contaminants. The ACF prepared with acidic, basic, neutral, polar, and highly oxidized surfaces were characterized with adsorption isotherms of HCl in nitrogen and found a strong interaction between the acidic gas and the basic surface.","abstract_html":"The adsorption isotherms of a series of progressively activated carbon fibers (ACF) with a range of surface areas from 760 $\\rm m\\sp2/g$ to 2420 $\\rm m\\sp2/g,$ prepared from phenolic precursors were examined with acetone, n-butane, benzene and nitrogen. 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