Volumetric apparatus for hydrogen adsorption and diffusion measurements: Sources of systematic error and impact of their experimental resolutions

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Policicchio, Alfonso ^a   Maccallini, Enrico ^a   Kalantzopoulos, Georgios N ^a   Cataldi, Ugo ^a   Abate, Salvatore ^a   Desiderio, Giovanni ^a   Agostino, Raffaele Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION MEASUREMENTS; DYNAMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; GAS STORAGE CAPACITY; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; HYDROGEN ADSORPTION; MOLECULAR HYDROGEN; THERMODYNAMICAL PROPERTIES; VOLUMETRIC APPARATUS;

POROUS MATERIALS;

SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

EID: 84887359064     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4824485     Document Type: Article

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