“…The first report on adsorption deformation (Mechan, 1927), was followed by a number of studies (Bangham et al, 1928(Bangham et al, , 1932(Bangham et al, , 1934Yates, 1952Yates, , 1954Flood, 1954Flood, , 1955Flood, , 1957Flood, , 1963Kononyuk et al, 1971Kononyuk et al, , 1972Bering, 1976;Beresin et al, 1980;Krasilnikova et al, 1979). This phenomenon remains the object of recent investigations (Dolino et al, 1996;Gerard et al, 1998;Warne et al, 2000;Young et al, 2000).…”