The local environment and nuclear dynamics of hydrogen in corannulene

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Corannulene, C20H10 is synthetic molecule sharing many similarities with fullerene, like charge transfer capabilities, a bended shape and the possibility to be intercalated by alkali metals. All these similitudes, combined with previous calculations and recent experiments, make this molecule a promising system for hydrogen storage. Like fullerene, intermolecular interactions are prevalently van Der Waals and a phase change is expected above room temperature, occuring before the melting point (270 C). With this experiment we seek to investigate for the first time the hydrogen momentum distribution across the transition and up to the melting point.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.87768389
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/87768389
Provenance
Creator Professor Felix Fernandez-Alonso; Dr Mattia Gaboardi; Dr Giovanni Romanelli; Miss Marta Gioventu
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 2017-10-19T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-10-25T08:00:00Z