Carbon Materials and Technology of Hydrogen Storage

Storage of hydrogen in nanostructured carbon materials

Recent developments focusing on novel hydrogen storage media have helped to benchmark nanostructured carbon materials as one of the ongoing strategic research areas in science and technology. In particular, certain microporous carbon powders, carbon nanomaterials, and specifically carbon nanotubes stand to deliver unparalleled performance as the next generation of base materials for storing hyd...

Zeolite-templated carbon materials for high-pressure hydrogen storage.

Zeolite-templated carbon (ZTC) materials were synthesized, characterized, and evaluated as potential hydrogen storage materials between 77 and 298 K up to 30 MPa. Successful synthesis of high template fidelity ZTCs was confirmed by X-ray diffraction and nitrogen adsorption at 77 K; BET surface areas up to ~3600 m(2) g(-1) were achieved. Equilibrium hydrogen adsorption capacity in ZTCs is higher...

Electrospun Nanofibrous Materials and Their Hydrogen Storage

Mechanochemical synthesis of hydrogen storage materials

0079-6425/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Lt http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmatsci.2012.07.001 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +33 1 49 78 12 25 E-mail address: [email protected] (F. Cueva New synthesis methods are of utmost importance for most materials science research fields. The present review focuses on mechanochemical synthesis methods for solid hydrogen storage. We anticipate that the ge...

Preparation and hydrogen storage capacity of highly porous activated carbon materials derived from polythiophene

Highly porous carbons have been successfully synthesized by chemical activation of polythiophene with KOH. The activation process was performed under relatively mild activation conditions, i. e., a KOH/polymer weight ratio of 2 and reaction temperatures in the 600 – 850 oC range. The porous carbons thus obtained possess very large surface areas, up to 3000 m/g, and pore volumes of up to 1.75 cm...