Confinement of MgH2 Nanoclusters within nanoporous aerogel scaffold materials

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3521-3528

  Nielsen, Thomas K ^a   Manickam, Kandavel ^b   Hirscher, Michael ^b   Besenbacher, Flemming ^a   Jensen, Torben R ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon aerogel; Hydride; Hydrogen storage; Magnesium; Nanoconfinement; Nanoporous scaffold

Indexed keywords

CARBON AEROGEL; CARBON AEROGELS; NANO-POROUS; NANOCONFINEMENTS; NANOPOROUS SCAFFOLD;

AEROGELS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; HYDROGEN; MAGNESIUM; NANOPARTICLES; PHENOLS; PORE SIZE; SCAFFOLDS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; THERMAL DESORPTION; THERMAL DESORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

HYDROGEN STORAGE;

EID: 73249122419     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn901072w     Document Type: Article

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