Structure of deuterated fullerides

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Hydrogen stands out as a promising alternative to fossil fuels, being able to yield clean energy when combined with oxygen, with an efficiency that is about three times higher than Diesel. Alkali cluster intercalated fullerides have recently shown promising performances as hydrogen storage materials, being able to reversible absorb hydrogen with the formation of hydrogenated fullerene. During the hydrogenation process, the lattice undergoes an anomalous expansion, due to the chemical absorption of hydrogen atoms on the C60 external surface. At the end of the process, although a high overall symmetry is mantained for the cell (bcc or fcc), the C60 molecular geometry is far from the initial icosahedral symmetry and still unknown. With this proposal, we seek to investigate the hydrogenated fullerene molecule as well as testing the new RMCProfile (v7) software.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.89615241
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/89615241
Provenance
Creator Miss Marta Gioventu; Professor Felix Fernandez-Alonso; Dr Helen Playford; Dr Mattia Gaboardi; Dr Wojciech Slawinski
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-12-04T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-12-12T10:02:30Z