Journal
CARBON
Volume 153, Issue -, Pages 234-241Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2019.06.087
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- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the Severo Ochoa program for Centres of Excellence in RD [SEV-2015-0522]
- Fundacio Privada Cellex
- Generalitat de Catalunya through the CERCA program
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [MAT2017-89522-R, CTQ2016-81911-REDT]
- European Union [785219 - Graphene Core2]
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Graphane offers a safe and high capacity hydrogen storage. Unfortunately, production of graphane directly from its parent material graphene requires breaking the extended pi bond, implying either harsh chemical environments or highly energetic plasmas. In here, we propose to use graphene oxide (GO) to initially have the lattice irregularities and local curvature conferring to some of the carbons a favorable partial negative charge or a sp3 hybridization suitable for C-H bond formation. When GO covers the cathode of a water splitting cell powered at 1.7 V, we demonstrate an effective hydrogen chemisorption exhibiting a logarithmic growth with time. Such GO undergoes a dynamic evolution, combining a continuous change in the local corrugation and partial charge distribution with deoxygenation, opening additional sites for hydrogen chemisorption. Using density functional theory combined with the experimental parameters we can monitor the H atom gravimetric density increase as the water splitting experiment takes place. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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