Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Grain-growth mediated hydrogen sorption kinetics and compensation effect in single Pd nanoparticles

  • Svetlana Alekseeva,
  • Michal Strach,
  • Sara Nilsson,
  • Joachim Fritzsche,
  • Vladimir P. Zhdanov,
  • Christoph Langhammer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25660-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Grains are the building blocks of crystalline solids. Here the authors show how hydrogen-sorption induced grain-growth in Pd nanoparticles slows down the hydrogen sorption kinetics and constitutes the physical origin of corresponding kinetic compensation.