A novel computational approach to study proton transfer in perfluorosulfonic acid membranes

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3648-3655

  Ahadian, Samad ^a   Ranjbar, Ahmad ^a   Mizuseki, Hiroshi ^a   Kawazoe, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Analysis of means (ANOM); Analysis of variance (ANOVA); Artificial neural network (ANN); Density functional theory (DFT); Perfluorosulfonic acid membrane; Proton transfer

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF MEANS; ANALYSIS OF MEANS (ANOM); ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; PERFLUOROSULFONIC ACID MEMBRANE; PERFLUOROSULFONIC ACID MEMBRANES;

ACIDS; BINDING ENERGY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MEMBRANES; NEURAL NETWORKS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROTON TRANSFER; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA);

EID: 77950298584     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.01.095     Document Type: Article

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