Hydrogen sieving and storage in fullerene intercalated graphite

Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-5

  Kuc, Agnieszka ^a   Zhechkov, Lyuben ^a   Patchkovskii, Serguei ^b   Seifert, Gotthard ^a   Heine, Thomas ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREE ENERGY; FULLERENES; HYDROGEN; INTERCALATION COMPOUNDS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SORPTION;

GEOMETRICAL PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR GASES; PHYSISORPTION;

GRAPHITE;

FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; GRAPHITE; HYDROGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY;

FULLERENES; GRAPHITE; HYDROGEN;

EID: 33846872348     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl0619148     Document Type: Article

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