Sentences with phrase «hydrogen molecules adhere»

Sung June Cho, a chemist at the Korean Institute of Energy Research in Taejon, suspected that the storage capabilities of nanotubes could result in part from their ability to conduct electrical charges, which may help hydrogen molecules adhere.

After extensive testing, the team found that the hydrogen binding energy (the amount of energy released when a hydrogen molecule adheres to a metal surface) was the most important factor predicting the rate of the reaction — information essential to researchers designing new catalyst materials.

Not exact matches

It adheres to a large and complicated molecule that activates it, and simultaneously receives the decisive message from the sky, in the flashing form of a packet of solar light: in an instant, like an insect caught by a spider, it is separated from its oxygen, combined with hydrogen and (one thinks) phosphorus, and finally inserted in a chain, whether long or short does not matter, but it is the chain of life.