Investigation of morphology and hydrogen adsorption capacity of disordered carbons

Carbon

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 82-90

  He, Lilin ^a   Melnichenko, Yuri B ^a   Gallego, Nidia C ^a   Contescu, Cristian I ^a   Guo, Junjie ^a   Bahadur, Jitendra ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CARBON; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN STORAGE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PORE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

HYDROGEN ADSORPTION; HYDROGEN ADSORPTION CAPACITY; MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; POLYFURFURYL ALCOHOLS; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCATTERING PROFILES; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICAL MODEL;

GAS ADSORPTION;

EID: 85027953532     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.08.041     Document Type: Article

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