Calcium-Decorated Polygon-Graphenes for Hydrogen Storage

Title
Calcium-Decorated Polygon-Graphenes for Hydrogen Storage
Publication Date
2023
Author(s)
Kim, Joohee
Kim, Heeyoung
Kim, Jongdeok
Bae, Hyeonhu
Singh, Amit
Hussain, Tanveer
Lee, Hoonkyung
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
American Chemical Society
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1021/acsaem.3c01020
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/55017
Abstract

We performed first-principles calculations to investigate hydrogen (H2) storage properties of bare and calcium (Ca)-decorated polygon-graphenes, i.e., biphenylene and ψ-graphene monolayers consisting of polygons, from tetragons to octagons. In pristine forms, both biphenylene and ψ-graphene bind H2 weakly. However, upon Ca doping, biphenylene adsorbed up to five H2 molecules regardless of polygonal sites, whereas ψ-graphene anchored up to six and five H2 molecules to pentagonal and heptagonal sites, respectively. In all the cases, the H2 binding energy was ~0.30 eV, enabling reversible room-temperature H2 storage. The H2 storage capacity can reach ~6.8 and ~4.2 wt % for Ca-decorated biphenylene and ψ-graphene, respectively. Using equilibrium thermodynamics, we showed the adsorption and desorption of H2 at 300 and 380 K under ambient pressure, respectively. This clearly indicates that Ca-decorated 2D sp2 carbon sheets with polygons (biphenylene, ψ-graphene) could be used as promising H2 storage materials.

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Citation
ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2023, 6, 6807−6813
ISSN
2574-0962
Start page
6807
End page
6813
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International

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