Argon and neon storages in single-walled boron nitride nanotubes: A grand canonical monte-carlo study

Fullerenes Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 700-712

  Shadman, Muhammad ^a   Ahadi, Zohreh ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adsorption; boron nitride nanotubes; grand canonical Monte Carlo; Langmuir equation

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTIVITY; BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBES; ENERGY ADSORPTION; GRAND CANONICAL MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; GRAND CANONICAL MONTE-CARLO; LANGMUIR EQUATION; LANGMUIRS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SINGLE-WALLED BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBES;

ADSORPTION; CARBON NANOTUBES; NITRIDES;

BORON;

EID: 79961034827     PISSN: 1536383X     EISSN: 15364046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1536383X.2010.515761     Document Type: Article

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