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1.
Sean P; Perim Collins, Eric; Daff
Idealized Carbon-Based Materials Exhibiting Record Deliverable Capacities for Vehicular Methane Storage Journal Article
Em: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 123, pp. 1050-1058, 2019.
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title = {Idealized Carbon-Based Materials Exhibiting Record Deliverable Capacities for Vehicular Methane Storage},
author = {Collins, Sean P; Perim, Eric; Daff, Thomas D; Skaf, Munir S; Galvao, Douglas Soares; Woo, Tom K},
url = {https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b09447},
doi = {10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b09447},
year = {2019},
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abstract = {Materials for vehicular methane storage have been extensively studied, although no suitable material has been found. In this work, we use molecular simulation to investigate three types of carbon-based materials, Schwarzites, layered graphenes, and carbon nanoscrolls, for use in vehicular methane storage under adsorption conditions of 65 bar and 298 K and desorption conditions of 5.8 bar and 358 K. Ten different Schwarzites were tested and found to have high adsorption with maximums at 273 VSTP/V, but middling deliverable capacities of no more than 131 VSTP/V. Layered graphene and graphene nanoscrolls were found to have extremely high CH4 adsorption capacities of 355 and 339 VSTP/V, respectively, when the interlayer distance was optimized to 11 Å. The deliverable capacities of perfectly layered graphene and graphene nanoscrolls were also found to be exceptional with values of 266 and 252 VSTP/V, respectively, with optimized interlayer distances. These values make idealized graphene and nanoscrolls the record holders for adsorption and deliverable capacities under vehicular methane storage conditions.},
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Materials for vehicular methane storage have been extensively studied, although no suitable material has been found. In this work, we use molecular simulation to investigate three types of carbon-based materials, Schwarzites, layered graphenes, and carbon nanoscrolls, for use in vehicular methane storage under adsorption conditions of 65 bar and 298 K and desorption conditions of 5.8 bar and 358 K. Ten different Schwarzites were tested and found to have high adsorption with maximums at 273 VSTP/V, but middling deliverable capacities of no more than 131 VSTP/V. Layered graphene and graphene nanoscrolls were found to have extremely high CH4 adsorption capacities of 355 and 339 VSTP/V, respectively, when the interlayer distance was optimized to 11 Å. The deliverable capacities of perfectly layered graphene and graphene nanoscrolls were also found to be exceptional with values of 266 and 252 VSTP/V, respectively, with optimized interlayer distances. These values make idealized graphene and nanoscrolls the record holders for adsorption and deliverable capacities under vehicular methane storage conditions.
2.
Borges, Daiane Damasceno; Galvao, Douglas S.
Schwarzites for Natural Gas Storage: A Grand-Canonical Monte Carlo Study Journal Article
Em: MRS Advances, vol. 3, não 1-2, pp. 115-120, 2018.
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url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/mrs-advances/article/schwarzites-for-natural-gas-storage-a-grandcanonical-monte-carlo-study/2DF8D601AF8EF04BBAC5CCCBEFA8339E},
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he 3D porous carbon-based structures called Schwarzites have been recently a subject of renewed interest due to the possibility of being synthesized in the near future. These structures exhibit negatively curvature topologies with tuneable porous sizes and shapes, which make them natural candidates for applications such as CO2 capture, gas storage and separation. Nevertheless, the adsorption properties of these materials have not been fully investigated. Following this motivation, we have carried out Grand-Canonical Monte Carlo simulations to study the adsorption of small molecules such as CO2, CO, CH4, N2 and H2, in a series of Schwarzites structures. Here, we present our preliminary results on natural gas adsorptive capacity in association with analyses of the guest-host interaction strengths. Our results show that Schwarzites P7par, P8bal and IWPg are the most promising structures with very high CO2 and CH4 adsorption capacity and low saturation pressure (<1bar) at ambient temperature. The P688 is interesting for H2 storage due to its exceptional high H2 adsorption enthalpy value of -19kJ/mol.
3.
Woellner, Cristiano F.; Botari, Tiago; Perim, Eric; Galvao, Douglas S.
Mechanical Properties of Schwarzites - A Fully Atomistic Reactive Molecular Dynamics Investigation Journal Article
Em: MRS Advances, pp. 1-6, 2018.
@article{Woellner2018b,
title = {Mechanical Properties of Schwarzites - A Fully Atomistic Reactive Molecular Dynamics Investigation},
author = {Cristiano F. Woellner and Tiago Botari and Eric Perim and Douglas S. Galvao},
url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/mrs-advances/article/mechanical-properties-of-schwarzites-a-fully-atomistic-reactive-molecular-dynamics-investigation/012AF477491A46541A052C944E4E4834},
doi = { https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2018.124},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-29},
journal = {MRS Advances},
pages = {1-6},
abstract = {Schwarzites are crystalline, 3D porous structures with a stable negative curvature formed of sp2-hybridized carbon atoms. These structures present topologies with tunable porous size and shape and unusual mechanical properties. In this work, we have investigated the mechanical behavior under compressive strain and energy absorption of four different Schwarzites. We considered two Schwarzites families, the so-called Gyroid and Primitive and two structures from each family. We carried out reactive molecular dynamics simulations, using the ReaxFF force field as available in the LAMMPS code. Our results also show they exhibit remarkable resilience under mechanical compression. They can be reduced to half of their original size before structural failure (fracture) occurs.},
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Schwarzites are crystalline, 3D porous structures with a stable negative curvature formed of sp2-hybridized carbon atoms. These structures present topologies with tunable porous size and shape and unusual mechanical properties. In this work, we have investigated the mechanical behavior under compressive strain and energy absorption of four different Schwarzites. We considered two Schwarzites families, the so-called Gyroid and Primitive and two structures from each family. We carried out reactive molecular dynamics simulations, using the ReaxFF force field as available in the LAMMPS code. Our results also show they exhibit remarkable resilience under mechanical compression. They can be reduced to half of their original size before structural failure (fracture) occurs.
4.
Woellner, Cristiano F.; Botari, Tiago; Perim, Eric; Galvao, Douglas S.
Mechanical Properties of Schwarzites - A Fully Atomistic Reactive Molecular Dynamics Investigation Online
2018, (preprint arXiv:1801.05639).
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author = {Cristiano F. Woellner and Tiago Botari and Eric Perim and Douglas S. Galvao},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.05639},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-18},
abstract = {Schwarzites are crystalline, 3D porous structures with stable negative curvature formed of sp2-hybridized carbon atoms. These structures present topologies with tunable porous size and shape and unusual mechanical properties. In this work, we have investigated the mechanical behavior under compressive strains and energy absorption of four different Schwarzites, through reactive molecular dynamics simulations, using the ReaxFF force field as available in the LAMMPS code. We considered two Schwarzites families, the so-called Gyroid and Primitive and two structures from each family. Our results also show they exhibit remarkable resilience under mechanical compression. They can be reduced to half of their original size before structural failure (fracture) occurs.},
note = {preprint arXiv:1801.05639},
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pubstate = {published},
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Schwarzites are crystalline, 3D porous structures with stable negative curvature formed of sp2-hybridized carbon atoms. These structures present topologies with tunable porous size and shape and unusual mechanical properties. In this work, we have investigated the mechanical behavior under compressive strains and energy absorption of four different Schwarzites, through reactive molecular dynamics simulations, using the ReaxFF force field as available in the LAMMPS code. We considered two Schwarzites families, the so-called Gyroid and Primitive and two structures from each family. Our results also show they exhibit remarkable resilience under mechanical compression. They can be reduced to half of their original size before structural failure (fracture) occurs.
5.
Sajadi, Seyed Mohammad; Owuor, Peter Samora; Schara, Steven; Woellner, Cristiano F.; Rodrigues, Varlei; Vajtai, Robert; Lou, Jun; Galvao, Douglas S.; Tiwary, Chandra Sekhar; Ajayan, Pulickel M.
Multi-scale Geometric Design Principles Applied to 3D Printed Schwartizes Journal Article
Em: Advanced Materials, vol. 2017, pp. 1704820, 2017.
@article{Sajadi2017,
title = {Multi-scale Geometric Design Principles Applied to 3D Printed Schwartizes},
author = {Seyed Mohammad Sajadi and Peter Samora Owuor and Steven Schara and Cristiano F. Woellner and Varlei Rodrigues and Robert Vajtai and Jun Lou and Douglas S. Galvao and Chandra Sekhar Tiwary and Pulickel M. Ajayan},
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year = {2017},
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abstract = {Schwartzites are 3D porous solids with periodic minimal surfaces having negative Gaussian curvatures and can possess unusual mechanical and electronic properties. The mechanical behavior of primitive and gyroid schwartzite structures across different length scales is investigated after these geometries are 3D printed at centimeter length scales based on molec- ular models. Molecular dynamics and nite elements simulations are used
to gain further understanding on responses of these complex solids under compressive loads and kinetic impact experiments. The results show that these structures hold great promise as high load bearing and impact-resistant materials due to a unique layered deformation mechanism that emerges in these architectures during loading. Easily scalable techniques such as 3D printing can be used for exploring mechanical behavior of various predicted complex geometrical shapes to build innovative engineered materials with tunable properties.},
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Schwartzites are 3D porous solids with periodic minimal surfaces having negative Gaussian curvatures and can possess unusual mechanical and electronic properties. The mechanical behavior of primitive and gyroid schwartzite structures across different length scales is investigated after these geometries are 3D printed at centimeter length scales based on molec- ular models. Molecular dynamics and nite elements simulations are used
to gain further understanding on responses of these complex solids under compressive loads and kinetic impact experiments. The results show that these structures hold great promise as high load bearing and impact-resistant materials due to a unique layered deformation mechanism that emerges in these architectures during loading. Easily scalable techniques such as 3D printing can be used for exploring mechanical behavior of various predicted complex geometrical shapes to build innovative engineered materials with tunable properties.
to gain further understanding on responses of these complex solids under compressive loads and kinetic impact experiments. The results show that these structures hold great promise as high load bearing and impact-resistant materials due to a unique layered deformation mechanism that emerges in these architectures during loading. Easily scalable techniques such as 3D printing can be used for exploring mechanical behavior of various predicted complex geometrical shapes to build innovative engineered materials with tunable properties.
2019
5.
Sean P; Perim Collins, Eric; Daff
Idealized Carbon-Based Materials Exhibiting Record Deliverable Capacities for Vehicular Methane Storage Journal Article
Em: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 123, pp. 1050-1058, 2019.
Resumo | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Gas Storage, Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo, Schwarzites, Scrolls
@article{Collins2019,
title = {Idealized Carbon-Based Materials Exhibiting Record Deliverable Capacities for Vehicular Methane Storage},
author = {Collins, Sean P; Perim, Eric; Daff, Thomas D; Skaf, Munir S; Galvao, Douglas Soares; Woo, Tom K},
url = {https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b09447},
doi = {10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b09447},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-05},
journal = {The Journal of Physical Chemistry C},
volume = {123},
pages = {1050-1058},
abstract = {Materials for vehicular methane storage have been extensively studied, although no suitable material has been found. In this work, we use molecular simulation to investigate three types of carbon-based materials, Schwarzites, layered graphenes, and carbon nanoscrolls, for use in vehicular methane storage under adsorption conditions of 65 bar and 298 K and desorption conditions of 5.8 bar and 358 K. Ten different Schwarzites were tested and found to have high adsorption with maximums at 273 VSTP/V, but middling deliverable capacities of no more than 131 VSTP/V. Layered graphene and graphene nanoscrolls were found to have extremely high CH4 adsorption capacities of 355 and 339 VSTP/V, respectively, when the interlayer distance was optimized to 11 Å. The deliverable capacities of perfectly layered graphene and graphene nanoscrolls were also found to be exceptional with values of 266 and 252 VSTP/V, respectively, with optimized interlayer distances. These values make idealized graphene and nanoscrolls the record holders for adsorption and deliverable capacities under vehicular methane storage conditions.},
keywords = {Gas Storage, Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo, Schwarzites, Scrolls},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Materials for vehicular methane storage have been extensively studied, although no suitable material has been found. In this work, we use molecular simulation to investigate three types of carbon-based materials, Schwarzites, layered graphenes, and carbon nanoscrolls, for use in vehicular methane storage under adsorption conditions of 65 bar and 298 K and desorption conditions of 5.8 bar and 358 K. Ten different Schwarzites were tested and found to have high adsorption with maximums at 273 VSTP/V, but middling deliverable capacities of no more than 131 VSTP/V. Layered graphene and graphene nanoscrolls were found to have extremely high CH4 adsorption capacities of 355 and 339 VSTP/V, respectively, when the interlayer distance was optimized to 11 Å. The deliverable capacities of perfectly layered graphene and graphene nanoscrolls were also found to be exceptional with values of 266 and 252 VSTP/V, respectively, with optimized interlayer distances. These values make idealized graphene and nanoscrolls the record holders for adsorption and deliverable capacities under vehicular methane storage conditions.
2018
4.
Borges, Daiane Damasceno; Galvao, Douglas S.
Schwarzites for Natural Gas Storage: A Grand-Canonical Monte Carlo Study Journal Article
Em: MRS Advances, vol. 3, não 1-2, pp. 115-120, 2018.
Resumo | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Gas Storage, Mechanical Properties, Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo, Schwarzites
@article{Borges2018d,
title = {Schwarzites for Natural Gas Storage: A Grand-Canonical Monte Carlo Study },
author = {Daiane Damasceno Borges and Douglas S. Galvao},
url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/mrs-advances/article/schwarzites-for-natural-gas-storage-a-grandcanonical-monte-carlo-study/2DF8D601AF8EF04BBAC5CCCBEFA8339E},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2018.190},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-02-13},
journal = {MRS Advances},
volume = {3},
number = {1-2},
pages = {115-120},
abstract = {he 3D porous carbon-based structures called Schwarzites have been recently a subject of renewed interest due to the possibility of being synthesized in the near future. These structures exhibit negatively curvature topologies with tuneable porous sizes and shapes, which make them natural candidates for applications such as CO2 capture, gas storage and separation. Nevertheless, the adsorption properties of these materials have not been fully investigated. Following this motivation, we have carried out Grand-Canonical Monte Carlo simulations to study the adsorption of small molecules such as CO2, CO, CH4, N2 and H2, in a series of Schwarzites structures. Here, we present our preliminary results on natural gas adsorptive capacity in association with analyses of the guest-host interaction strengths. Our results show that Schwarzites P7par, P8bal and IWPg are the most promising structures with very high CO2 and CH4 adsorption capacity and low saturation pressure (<1bar) at ambient temperature. The P688 is interesting for H2 storage due to its exceptional high H2 adsorption enthalpy value of -19kJ/mol.},
keywords = {Gas Storage, Mechanical Properties, Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo, Schwarzites},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
he 3D porous carbon-based structures called Schwarzites have been recently a subject of renewed interest due to the possibility of being synthesized in the near future. These structures exhibit negatively curvature topologies with tuneable porous sizes and shapes, which make them natural candidates for applications such as CO2 capture, gas storage and separation. Nevertheless, the adsorption properties of these materials have not been fully investigated. Following this motivation, we have carried out Grand-Canonical Monte Carlo simulations to study the adsorption of small molecules such as CO2, CO, CH4, N2 and H2, in a series of Schwarzites structures. Here, we present our preliminary results on natural gas adsorptive capacity in association with analyses of the guest-host interaction strengths. Our results show that Schwarzites P7par, P8bal and IWPg are the most promising structures with very high CO2 and CH4 adsorption capacity and low saturation pressure (<1bar) at ambient temperature. The P688 is interesting for H2 storage due to its exceptional high H2 adsorption enthalpy value of -19kJ/mol.
3.
Woellner, Cristiano F.; Botari, Tiago; Perim, Eric; Galvao, Douglas S.
Mechanical Properties of Schwarzites - A Fully Atomistic Reactive Molecular Dynamics Investigation Journal Article
Em: MRS Advances, pp. 1-6, 2018.
Resumo | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Mechanical Properties, Molecular Dynamics, Schwarzites
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author = {Cristiano F. Woellner and Tiago Botari and Eric Perim and Douglas S. Galvao},
url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/mrs-advances/article/mechanical-properties-of-schwarzites-a-fully-atomistic-reactive-molecular-dynamics-investigation/012AF477491A46541A052C944E4E4834},
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year = {2018},
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abstract = {Schwarzites are crystalline, 3D porous structures with a stable negative curvature formed of sp2-hybridized carbon atoms. These structures present topologies with tunable porous size and shape and unusual mechanical properties. In this work, we have investigated the mechanical behavior under compressive strain and energy absorption of four different Schwarzites. We considered two Schwarzites families, the so-called Gyroid and Primitive and two structures from each family. We carried out reactive molecular dynamics simulations, using the ReaxFF force field as available in the LAMMPS code. Our results also show they exhibit remarkable resilience under mechanical compression. They can be reduced to half of their original size before structural failure (fracture) occurs.},
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Schwarzites are crystalline, 3D porous structures with a stable negative curvature formed of sp2-hybridized carbon atoms. These structures present topologies with tunable porous size and shape and unusual mechanical properties. In this work, we have investigated the mechanical behavior under compressive strain and energy absorption of four different Schwarzites. We considered two Schwarzites families, the so-called Gyroid and Primitive and two structures from each family. We carried out reactive molecular dynamics simulations, using the ReaxFF force field as available in the LAMMPS code. Our results also show they exhibit remarkable resilience under mechanical compression. They can be reduced to half of their original size before structural failure (fracture) occurs.
2.
Woellner, Cristiano F.; Botari, Tiago; Perim, Eric; Galvao, Douglas S.
Mechanical Properties of Schwarzites - A Fully Atomistic Reactive Molecular Dynamics Investigation Online
2018, (preprint arXiv:1801.05639).
Resumo | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Mechanical Properties, Molecular Dynamics, Schwarzites
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abstract = {Schwarzites are crystalline, 3D porous structures with stable negative curvature formed of sp2-hybridized carbon atoms. These structures present topologies with tunable porous size and shape and unusual mechanical properties. In this work, we have investigated the mechanical behavior under compressive strains and energy absorption of four different Schwarzites, through reactive molecular dynamics simulations, using the ReaxFF force field as available in the LAMMPS code. We considered two Schwarzites families, the so-called Gyroid and Primitive and two structures from each family. Our results also show they exhibit remarkable resilience under mechanical compression. They can be reduced to half of their original size before structural failure (fracture) occurs.},
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Schwarzites are crystalline, 3D porous structures with stable negative curvature formed of sp2-hybridized carbon atoms. These structures present topologies with tunable porous size and shape and unusual mechanical properties. In this work, we have investigated the mechanical behavior under compressive strains and energy absorption of four different Schwarzites, through reactive molecular dynamics simulations, using the ReaxFF force field as available in the LAMMPS code. We considered two Schwarzites families, the so-called Gyroid and Primitive and two structures from each family. Our results also show they exhibit remarkable resilience under mechanical compression. They can be reduced to half of their original size before structural failure (fracture) occurs.
2017
1.
Sajadi, Seyed Mohammad; Owuor, Peter Samora; Schara, Steven; Woellner, Cristiano F.; Rodrigues, Varlei; Vajtai, Robert; Lou, Jun; Galvao, Douglas S.; Tiwary, Chandra Sekhar; Ajayan, Pulickel M.
Multi-scale Geometric Design Principles Applied to 3D Printed Schwartizes Journal Article
Em: Advanced Materials, vol. 2017, pp. 1704820, 2017.
Resumo | Links | BibTeX | Tags: 3D printing, Mechanical Properties, Molecular Dynamics, Schwarzites
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title = {Multi-scale Geometric Design Principles Applied to 3D Printed Schwartizes},
author = {Seyed Mohammad Sajadi and Peter Samora Owuor and Steven Schara and Cristiano F. Woellner and Varlei Rodrigues and Robert Vajtai and Jun Lou and Douglas S. Galvao and Chandra Sekhar Tiwary and Pulickel M. Ajayan},
url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201704820/full},
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abstract = {Schwartzites are 3D porous solids with periodic minimal surfaces having negative Gaussian curvatures and can possess unusual mechanical and electronic properties. The mechanical behavior of primitive and gyroid schwartzite structures across different length scales is investigated after these geometries are 3D printed at centimeter length scales based on molec- ular models. Molecular dynamics and nite elements simulations are used
to gain further understanding on responses of these complex solids under compressive loads and kinetic impact experiments. The results show that these structures hold great promise as high load bearing and impact-resistant materials due to a unique layered deformation mechanism that emerges in these architectures during loading. Easily scalable techniques such as 3D printing can be used for exploring mechanical behavior of various predicted complex geometrical shapes to build innovative engineered materials with tunable properties.},
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Schwartzites are 3D porous solids with periodic minimal surfaces having negative Gaussian curvatures and can possess unusual mechanical and electronic properties. The mechanical behavior of primitive and gyroid schwartzite structures across different length scales is investigated after these geometries are 3D printed at centimeter length scales based on molec- ular models. Molecular dynamics and nite elements simulations are used
to gain further understanding on responses of these complex solids under compressive loads and kinetic impact experiments. The results show that these structures hold great promise as high load bearing and impact-resistant materials due to a unique layered deformation mechanism that emerges in these architectures during loading. Easily scalable techniques such as 3D printing can be used for exploring mechanical behavior of various predicted complex geometrical shapes to build innovative engineered materials with tunable properties.
to gain further understanding on responses of these complex solids under compressive loads and kinetic impact experiments. The results show that these structures hold great promise as high load bearing and impact-resistant materials due to a unique layered deformation mechanism that emerges in these architectures during loading. Easily scalable techniques such as 3D printing can be used for exploring mechanical behavior of various predicted complex geometrical shapes to build innovative engineered materials with tunable properties.
