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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 46, Issue 38, Pages 19988-19997Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2021.03.103
Keywords
Carboneous materials; DFT; Co-mixing; Van der Waals interactions; Gravimetric density
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- Olle Engkvists stiftelse [198-0390]
- Carl Tryggers Stiftelse [CTS: 18:4]
- Swedish Research Council [VR-2016-06014]
- CENCON
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The study investigates the coadoption of H-2 and CH4 on Li decorated carbon nitride monolayer using first principles density functional calculations, and achieves significantly high storage capacity with a novel strategy of CH4-H-2 co-mixing.
There is a great interest in the design of innovative concepts and strategies of nitrogen rich carboneous materials for exploring their hydrogen (H-2) storage properties. Methane (CH4) storage can be an alternative to H-2 because the combustion energy of the former is around three times higher than the latter. However, strong inter-molecular repulsion between the CH4 molecules is a major bottleneck to achieve a high gravimetric density. In this study, we use first principles density functional calculations to investigate the coadoption of H-2 and CH4 on Li decorated carbon nitride (Li-C7N6) monolayer. The repulsion between CH4 molecules has been avoided by keeping them in asymmetric configuration whereas the repulsion between CH4-H-2 is in moderation due to the exploitation of open Li doped sites on C7N6 surface. Though Li-C7N6 has a lower H-2 or CH4 storage capacity due to weak van der Waals interactions, the capacity could be doubled with a novel strategy of co-mixing of H-2 with CH4 which results into a significantly high gravimetric density of 8.1 wt%. This clearly shows that the CH4-H-2 co-mixing strategies have the potential to further propel the prospects of C7N6 monolayers for reversible clean energy storage applications. (C) 2021 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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