Patent ID: 8641810

Claim:
An apparatus for loading a substance, the apparatus comprising: a first layer of a sorption material having a first edge; a second layer of the sorption material having a second edge, and a catalyst on the first layer and the second layer, wherein: the catalyst is located proximate to the first edge and the second edge, the second layer of the sorption material is configured parallel to the first layer of the sorption material, the first layer and the second layer of the sorption material are separated by a distance that enables a substance to be loaded between the first and second layers of the sorption material, and the distance enables the substance to be loaded between the first and second layers of the sorption material by the adsorption of a portion of the substance onto a surface of the first layer and/or the second layer and the absorption of a portion of the substance into a zone between the first layer and the second layer.