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- PostHydrogen adsorption on graphene and coronene: A van der Waals density functional study(2011) Varenius, Eskil; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Microtechnology and NanoscienceThis thesis investigates hydrogen adsorption on graphene and coronene within the framework of density functional theory. The new nonlocal van der Waals density functional (vdW-DF) method is used: the original version, vdW-DF1, and the new higher accuracy version, vdW-DF2. Hydrogen adsorption is studied in the context of formation of molecular hydrogen in interstellar space, a process thought to depend on hydrogen adsorbing on a graphitic surface. Calculations were done for hydrogen above coronene and graphene with both vdW-DF1 and vdW-DF2 to investigate how these functionals perform in the case of hydrogen adsorption on a graphitic surface. All calculations were performed with the software GPAW in a non-self consistent way based on underlying selfconsistent GGA (revPBE) calculations.The calculations performed in this thesis indicate that it is important to use a spin-polarised description of the physics to get accurate results for hydrogen adsorption on a graphitic surface.