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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Svetlana Alekseeva, Michal Strach, Sara Nilsson, Joachim Fritzsche, Vladimir P. Zhdanov, Christoph Langhammer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25660-x