Diffusion of molecular hydrogen in carbon aerogel

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We propose to perform QENS experiments on the OSIRIS spectrometer to study hydrogen diffusion in a carbon aerogel which has been synthesized at the University of Budapest and exhibits a very high specific surface area. OSIRIS offers a particularly large Q-range, which will allow us to make precise conclusions about the jump diffusion of the molecules, e.g. the jump distance and rate. We also expect to observe a QENS broadening that corresponds to a KWW type stretched exponential decay of the intermediate scattering function. The high energy resolution that OSIRIS provides even in the high-Q setting will allow us to extract the expected stretching parameter as a function of Q and thus relate it to the fractal dimension of the carbon matrix. We plan to measure at 6 temperatures from 14K to 60K and at two surface coverages, 0.1ML and 0.5ML of adsorbed hydrogen.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.47627767
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/47627767
Provenance
Creator Dr Orsolya Czakkel; Mr Emanuel Bahn; Dr Peter Fouquet
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-03-20T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-07-23T23:00:00Z