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Cover Letter To Applied Surface Science Editor Dear Editor: We hereby submit our manuscript entitled “Hydrogen storage capacity of Li-decorated borophene and pristine graphene slit pores: A combined ab initio and quantum- thermodynamic study”, by I. Cabria et al., as candidate to be published in Applied Surface Science as a full-length article. In this work, we have theoretically investigated the hydrogen storage capacity of Li-decorated borophene slit pores and pure graphene slit pores. What makes our work stand out from most theoretical studies on the hydrogen storage ability of nanostructures is that our combined quantum-thermodynamical approach allows the volumetric and gravimetric storage capacities to be determined as functions of temperature and pressure for different pore sizes. Thus, our results could be directly compared with experiments on these kinds of systems in realistic conditions. We must point out that our paper was originally submited for publication in Journal of Power Sources, but it was rejected on the basis of the report of an experimental referee whose main objections were: i) that our theoretical predictions for the hydrogen storage capacity of Li-decorated borophene slit pores do not give excelent storage performance, and ii) that our paper is more appropriate to a journal dedicated to the theoretical/computational methods. We must point out that there are other theoretical predictions on the hydrogen storage capacity of borophene and other nanostructures that give very high gravimetric densities, but, as indicated in the Introduction of our paper, they are not realistic, because they are based on standard density functional calculations, only valid at zero temperature and no pressure. On the other hand, although our main goal in this work concerns Li-decorated borophene slit pores, the same quantum-thermodynamic methodology that we propose can be useful for investigating the hydrogen storage capacity of confined nanostructures doped with appropiated species in general. These theoretical calculations could be a useful guide for the design of new nanoporous systems, composed by many regions of parallel surfaces, with optimal hydrogen storage capacities. The version of the paper that we now submit for publication to Applied Surface Science is a slightly modified version of the one we submit for publication to Journal of Power Sources, in which we have introduced some modifications in the light of the comments of the above-mentioned referee, especially in the Conclusions section. The Editor of Journal of Power Sources suggested us the possibility to transfer our paper to Applied Surface Science We are sure that our predicted results shall become a fundamental reference for future research on borophene (and hydrogen-storage nanostructures in general), a material synthesized a few years ago by Mannix et al. (Science 350 (2015) 1513). Your sincerely, Iván Cabria Corresponding authorPDF Image | Hydrogen storage capacity of Li-decorated borophene
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