Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Volume 7, Issue 23, Pages 14244-14252Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9ta03665b
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51671172, U1601212]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFB1502102]
- National Youth Top-Notch Talent Support Program
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A novel 2D layered NbTiC solid-solution MXene was synthesized from its MAX phase via a wet chemical etching process. While ball milling the NbTiC MXene with MgH2, ultrafine bimetal NbTi nanocrystals were formed in situ with a grain size of 5 nm, which offer highly stable catalytic activity for the hydrogen storage reaction of MgH2. The MgH2-9 wt% NbTiC sample starts releasing hydrogen from 195 degrees C, which is 80 degrees C lower than that for the additive-free sample. At 250 degrees C, it releases approximately 5.8 wt% H-2 within 30 min, and the fully dehydrogenated sample takes up 4.0 wt% H-2 within 15 min even at 50 degrees C under 50 bar H-2 pressure. DFT calculations reveal a charge transfer process from Ti atoms to Nb atoms in the NbTi cluster and a lower absolute value of the adsorption energy of H-2 on NbTi. This would presumably benefit both the breakage of Mg-H bonding and the detachment of H-2 from the NbTi surface, and consequently lead to good catalytic activity.
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