Research Postcards – David Benoit

Quantum probability surface for the hydrogen atoms in a hydrogen clathrate hydrate. These water “snowballs” are nature’s way of storing hydrogen and/or methane in the deep sea under incredibly high pressures. Understanding these structures are important for future energy storage but have also been suggested to occur on some icy moons in our solar system (Enceladus, for example).
Quantum probability surface for the hydrogen atoms in a hydrogen clathrate hydrate. These water “snowballs” are nature’s way of storing hydrogen and/or methane in the deep sea under incredibly high pressures. Understanding these structures are important for future energy storage but have also been suggested to occur on some icy moons in our solar system (Enceladus, for example).

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Does cage quantum delocalisation influence the translation-rotation states of molecules inside a clathrate? 

Interstellar Dust and Ice at The E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics

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