Methane adsorption on graphitic nanostructures: Every molecule counts

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 2598-2603

  Zöttl, Samuel ^a   Kaiser, Alexander ^a   Bartl, Peter ^a   Leidlmair, Christian ^a   Mauracher, Andreas ^a   Probst, Michael ^a   Denifl, Stephan ^a   Echt, Olof ^a,b   Scheier, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b University of New Hampshire   (United States)

Author keywords

Interfaces; Porous Materials and Catalysis; Surfaces

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; ADSORPTION ENERGIES; ADSORPTION SITE; CARBON HEXAGON; GROOVE SITES; METHANE ADSORPTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANOTUBE BUNDLES; NONUNIFORMITY; SINGLE-WALLED NANOTUBE; STORAGE OF HYDROGEN;

AGGREGATES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; EXPERIMENTS; FULLERENES; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN STORAGE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); METHANE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; NANOTUBES; POROUS MATERIALS; SURFACES;

ADSORPTION;

EID: 84866619661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz301106x     Document Type: Article

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