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COMPUTATIONAL AND THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 1217, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2022.113899
Keywords
Hydrogen storage; Boron clusters; DFT calculation; QTAIM; ADMP-MD simulation
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- Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB) , DST, India [EMR/2014/000141]
- Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme -III, Government of India
- Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) , Dhanbad
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In this study, the hydrogen storage capacity of vanadium decorated small boron clusters was investigated using density functional theory. Molecular dynamics simulations were used to analyze their stability and storage capacity, and the results demonstrate the potential for reversible hydrogen storage.
We present our theoretical investigation on hydrogen storage capacity of vanadium decorated small boron clusters (BnV2, n = 6-10) employing dispersion-corrected density functional theory. Stabilities of the clusters during H2 adsorption are confirmed from the global reactivity parameters. BnV2 clusters are found to adsorb up to ten H2 molecules in quasi-molecular form via Kubas-Niu-Rao-Jena kind of interactions with average adsorption energy in the range of 0.17-0.26 eV/H2. ADMP molecular dynamics simulation reveals the thermal stability, structural integrity and reversibility of BnV2, n = 6-10 at room temperature (300 K). The maximum practical hydrogen storage capacity at temperature up to 80 K and pressure ranges of 1-60 bar are found to store up to 8.75-10.78 wt% which is well above the target set by US-DOE (5.5 wt% by 2025). The results obtained from our investigations assure the potential of vanadium decorated small boron clusters for reversible hydrogen storage.
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