Nanostructured Polymeric Materials for 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...

Adaptive Polymeric Nanomaterials Utilizing Reversible Covalent and Hydrogen Bonding

Nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage.

Nanostructured materials are advantageous in offering huge surface to volume ratios, favorable transport properties, altered physical properties, and confinement effects resulting from the nanoscale dimensions, and have been extensively studied for energy-related applications such as solar cells, catalysts, thermoelectrics, lithium ion batteries, supercapacitors, and hydrogen storage systems. T...

Nanoengineered Materials: From Polymer Composites to Structured Adsorbents

The challenge for nanoscale modeling and simulation is to bridge the length and time scales that are necessary to connect nanostructure of the material with its macroscopic properties. This challenge can only be met by combining the efforts of individual researchers who collectively are expert in a wide range of computational and theoretical techniques. The team we have assembled from the Unive...

Rapid Synthesis of Nanostructured Pure Anatase TiO2 with High Thermal Stability by Polymeric Sol-Gel Route

The nanostructured anatase TiO2 with high thermal stability was prepared by polymeric sol-gel method without any additives. The particle size distribution of polymeric titania sol was determined by dynamic light scattering (DLS). Then properties of obtained titania were investigated by TG-DTA, XRD, FESEM and TEM. Also, the decolorization capability of resultant anatase was evaluated using methy...