Patent ID: 8147599

Claim:
An apparatus for loading a substance, the apparatus comprising: a first layer of a sorption material; and a second layer of the sorption material, wherein: 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, 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, and at least one of the first layer and the second layer includes surface structures oriented on the layer's surface, wherein: the surface structures are composed of a different material than the first and second layers of the sorption material, and the surface structures are composed of boron nitride and the first and second layers of the sorption material are composed of graphene.