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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Hierarchical porous Li₂Mg(NH)₂@C nanowires with long cycle life towards stable hydrogen storage |
Other Titles: | Hierarchical porous Li(2)Mg(NH)(2)@C nanowires with long cycle life towards sStable hydrogen storage |
Author: | Xia, G. Tan, Y. Li, D. Guo, Z. Liu, H. Liu, Z. Yu, X. |
Citation: | Scientific Reports, 2014; 4(1):6599-1-6599-7 |
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
ISSN: | 2045-2322 2045-2322 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Guanglin Xia, Yingbin Tan, Dan Li, Zaiping Guo, Huakun Liu, Zongwen Liu and Xuebin Yu |
Abstract: | The hierarchical porous Li₂Mg(NH)₂@C nanowires full of micropores, mesopores, and macropores are successfully fabricated via a single-nozzle electrospinning technique combined with in-situ reaction between the precursors, i.e., MgCl₂ and LiN₃, under physical restriction upon thermal annealing. The explosive decomposition of LiN₃ well dispersed in the electrospun nanowires during carbothermal treatment induces a highly porous structure, which provides a favourable way for H₂ delivering in and out of Li₂Mg(NH) nanoparticles simultaneously realized by the space-confinement of the porous carbon coating. As a result, the thus-fabricatedLi₂Mg(NH)@C nanowires present significantly enhanced thermodynamics and kinetics towards hydrogen storage performance, e.g., a complete cycle of H2 uptake and release with a capacity close to the theoretical value at a temperature as low as 105°C. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the lowest cycling temperature reported to date. More interestingly, induced by the nanosize effects and space-confinement function of porous carbon coating, a excellently stable regeneration without apparent degradation after 20 de-/re-hydrogenation cycles at a temperature as low as 130°C was achieved for the as-prepared Li₂Mg(NH)₂@C nanowires. |
Keywords: | Nanopores; nanowires |
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DOI: | 10.1038/srep06599 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140102858 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep06599 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 8 Chemical Engineering publications |
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