Low Temperature Dehydrogenation Properties of Ammonia Borane Within Carbon Nanotube Arrays: a Synergistic Effect of Nanoconfinement and Alane

Overview

Journal RSC Adv

Publisher Royal Society of Chemistry

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2022 May 6

PMID 35518327

Authors

Zhijie Cao

Liuzhang Ouyang

Michael Felderhoff

Min Zhu

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Abstract

Ammonia borane (AB, NHBH) is considered as one of the most promising hydrogen storage materials for proton exchange membrane fuel cells due to its high theoretical hydrogen capacity under moderate temperatures. Unfortunately, its on-board application is hampered by the sluggish kinetics, volatile byproducts and harsh conditions for reversibility. In this work, AB and AlH were simultaneously infiltrated into a carbon nanotube array (CMK-5) to combine the synergistic effect of alane with nanoconfinement for improving the dehydrogenation properties of AB. Results showed that the transformation from AB to DADB started at room temperature, which promoted AB to release 9.4 wt% H within 10 min at a low temperature of 95 °C. Moreover, the entire suppression of all harmful byproducts was observed.

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