Hydrogen storage and electronic properties of C20, C15M5 and H2@C15M5 (M = Al, Si, Ga, Ge) nanoclusters
Articles > Article ยท 2021
Authors: Tugce Metin, Cemal PARLAK, Ozgur Alver, Mustafa TEPE
Journal of Molecular Structure, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, Scopus, 2021, vol 1247, pp 131272-131272
DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2021.131272
Summary
Density functional theory has been used to optimize and to investigate the mechanical, thermal, electronic and optical properties of exohedral, endohedral and heteroatom substituted excellent host family of fullerenes. In this study, we have investigated hydrogen molecule encapsulation properties of C-20 , aluminum, silicon, gallium and germanium doped C-20 fullerenes. We also examined the electronic properties. It was observed that by heteroatom doping it is possible to manipulate the electronic properties of the studied clusters and within the doped clusters, C15Si5 shows the most effective interaction and it is the most sensitive to the presence of H-2 molecule. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.