Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 39, Issue 20, Pages 10606-10612Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.05.037
Keywords
Sc2C; Hydrogen storage; Kubas-type interaction; First-principles calculation; Molecular dynamic simulation
Categories
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51202058, 50802024, 51002045, 11147167]
- Program for Innovative Research Team (in Science and Technology) in the University of Henan Province [2012IRTSTHN007]
- Innovative Research Team in Henan Polytechnic University [T2013-4]
- Opening Project of Henan Key Discipline Open Laboratory of Mining Engineering Materials
- Henan Polytechnic University
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Recently, a new family of two-dimensional (2D) MXene materials was prepared by exfoliating the MAX phases (ACS Nano 2012, 6, 1322). Among all possible MXene phases, theoretically 2D Sc2C possesses the highest surface area per weight and thus is expected to have the highest gravimetric hydrogen storage capacities. In this work, using first-principles total energy pseudopotential calculations, we systematically investigated the hydrogen storage properties of 2D Sc2C phase. Depending on different adsorption sites, the hydrogens are bound by three modes: chemisorption, physisorption and Kubas-type interactions with the binding energies of 4.703, 0.087 and 0.164 eV respectively. The maximum hydrogen storage capacity was calculated to be 9.0 wt.%, which meets the gravimetric storage capacity target (5.5 wt.% by 2015) set by the U.S. DOE. Ab-initio molecular dynamic simulations confirmed that 3.6 wt.% hydrogen molecules storaged by Kubas-type interactions can be adsorbed and released reversibly at ambient conditions. Copyright (C) 2014, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available