Hydrogen adsorption capacities of multi-walled boron nitride nanotubes and nanotube arrays: A grand canonical Monte Carlo study

Journal of Molecular Modeling

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2981-2991

  Ahadi, Zohreh ^a   Shadman, Muhammad ^b   Yeganegi, Saeed ^c   Asgari, Farid ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZANJAN   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAZANDARAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Boron nitride nanotubes; Grand canonical Monte Carlo; Hydrogen; Nanotube arrays; Storage

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBE; DOUBLE WALLED BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBE; HYDROGEN; MULTI WALLED BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBE; TRIPLE WALLED BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADSORPTION; LANGMUIR BLODGETT FILM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION;

ADSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; BORON COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROGEN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOTUBES;

EID: 84864654014     PISSN: 16102940     EISSN: 09485023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00894-011-1316-9     Document Type: Review

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