Methane capture and storage are of particular importance for the development of new technology to reduce the effects of climate change and global warming. Carbon-based nanomaterials are among several porous… Click to show full abstract
Methane capture and storage are of particular importance for the development of new technology to reduce the effects of climate change and global warming. Carbon-based nanomaterials are among several porous nanomaterials proposed as potential candidates for methane storage. In this paper, we adopt a new continuum approach with functional Lennard-Jones parameters to provide interaction energies for methane inside carbon nanostructures, namely fullerenes, nanotube bundles, and nanocones. This study provides a significant improvement to previous continuum modeling approaches using the Lennard-Jones potential.
               
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