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:10.1038/s41467-021-25660-x

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

Affiliations

Svetlana Alekseeva: Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology
Michal Strach: Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology
Sara Nilsson: Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology
Joachim Fritzsche: Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology
Vladimir P. Zhdanov: Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology
Christoph Langhammer: Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology

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.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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