Hydrogen storage in carbon nanostructures: Possibilities and challenges for fundamental molecular simulations

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1806-1814

  Banerjee, Soumik ^a   Murad, Sohail ^b   Puri, Ishwar K ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

^b 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Hydrogen storage; Molecular simulation

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CARBON NANOMATERIALS; DELIVERY SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR SIMULATION;

HYDROGEN STORAGE;

EID: 33947314933     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2006.883703     Document Type: Article

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