Hydrogen adsorption properties of polymer-derived nanoporous SiC_x fibers

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• 作者：Zengyong Chu ; Rongan He ; Xiaobin Zhang ; Haifeng Cheng ; Xiaodong Li ; Yingde Wang
• 关键词：Hydrogen storage ; SiC_x fibers ; Nanoporous ; Carbon nanotube
• 刊名：International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：April 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：35
• 期：7
• 页码：3165-3169
• 全文大小：648 K

文摘

In an effort to prepare new hydrogen storage materials, we successfully obtained three types of polymer-derived nanoporous SiC_x (x = 5–7) fibers, whose specific surface areas (SSAs) are larger than 580 m²/g. Their hydrogen adsorption properties were studied with a comparison of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). The results reveal that micropores play a predominant role in hydrogen adsorptions at 77 K and at pressures below 0.5 MPa, and mesopores begin to take greater effect when the pressure increases beyond 0.5 MPa. The maximum hydrogen storage capacity (HSC), 0.33 wt % at 302 K and 4 MPa, was achieved for SiC_x-KN fibers with SSA of 990 m²/g, while the HSC of the MWCNTs is 0.09 wt % at the same conditions. For these new materials, this work demonstrates that small pore size, large micropore volume and large SSA are all beneficial for the high hydrogen uptake. It can also be deduced from the work that the HSC of the SiC_x fibers could be further increased if the crystallinity and the composition are better controlled.