TY - JOUR
T1 - Hydrogen storage kinetics
T2 - The graphene nanoplatelet size effect
AU - Ruse, Efrat
AU - Buzaglo, Matat
AU - Pri-Bar, Ilan
AU - Shunak, Liran
AU - Nadiv, Roey
AU - Pevzner, Svetlana
AU - Siton-Mendelson, Orit
AU - Skripnyuk, Vladimir M.
AU - Rabkin, Eugen
AU - Regev, Oren
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2018 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2018/4/1
Y1 - 2018/4/1
N2 - The kinetics of hydrogen storage in magnesium can be accelerated by nanocarbon additives. In this study, we show that loading magnesium by graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) enhances the kinetics by more than an order of magnitude. The GNP presence reduces the Mg agglomeration, induced by de/hydriding, and accelerates the kinetics by connecting between Mg particles. The GNP were prepared by top-down graphite ball-milling in the presence of various organic protective agents. We found that both the molecular structure of the protective agent and the milling energy dictated the GNP properties, namely, size, thickness, defect density and specific surface area. We demonstrated how manipulation of the GNP size has a major effect on the hydrogen storage kinetics in magnesium-GNP composites.
AB - The kinetics of hydrogen storage in magnesium can be accelerated by nanocarbon additives. In this study, we show that loading magnesium by graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) enhances the kinetics by more than an order of magnitude. The GNP presence reduces the Mg agglomeration, induced by de/hydriding, and accelerates the kinetics by connecting between Mg particles. The GNP were prepared by top-down graphite ball-milling in the presence of various organic protective agents. We found that both the molecular structure of the protective agent and the milling energy dictated the GNP properties, namely, size, thickness, defect density and specific surface area. We demonstrated how manipulation of the GNP size has a major effect on the hydrogen storage kinetics in magnesium-GNP composites.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2018.01.012
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2018.01.012
M3 - Article
SN - 0008-6223
VL - 130
SP - 369
EP - 376
JO - Carbon
JF - Carbon
ER -