Activated carbon efficient atomistic model construction that depicts experimentally-determined characteristics

Carbon

Volumn 83, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-14

  Huang, Yang ^a,b   Cannon, Fred S ^b   Watson, Justin K ^c   Reznik, B ^d   Mathews, Jonathan P ^c  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; GRAPHENE; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

ATOMISTIC MODELING; ATOMISTIC REPRESENTATION; CONSTRUCTION APPROACHES; CONSTRUCTION STRATEGIES; DEGREE OF ORIENTATION; EXISTING STRUCTURE; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURES; STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS;

PORE SIZE;

EID: 84916941241     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.11.012     Document Type: Article

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