Ca-Coated boron fullerenes and nanotubes as superior hydrogen storage materials

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1944-1948

  Li, Ming ^a   Li, Yafei ^a   Zhou, Zhen ^a   Shen, Panwen ^a   Chen, Zhongfang ^b  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL COMPUTATIONS; DESORPTION OF HYDROGEN; GRAVIMETRIC DENSITY; HYDROGEN ADSORPTION; HYDROGEN STORAGE CAPACITIES; HYDROGEN STORAGE MATERIALS; NANOTUBE SURFACE; REVERSIBLE ADSORPTION;

ATOMS; BINDING ENERGY; BINDING SITES; BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM; CHARGE TRANSFER; COATED MATERIALS; DESORPTION; FULLERENES; GAS ADSORPTION; HYDROGEN; ION EXCHANGE; NANOTUBES; NUCLEAR ENERGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SCANDIUM; SURFACES;

HYDROGEN STORAGE;

EID: 66549126137     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl900116q     Document Type: Article

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