Direct Evidence for Solid-like Hydrogen in a Nanoporous Carbon Hydrogen Storage Material at Supercritical Temperatures

Ting, Valeska P.; Ramirez-Cuesta, Anibal J.; Bimbo, Nuno; Sharpe, Jessica E.; Noguera-Diaz, Antonio; Presser, Volker; Rudic, Svemir; Mays, Timothy J.

doi:10.1021/acsnano.5b02623

Title: Direct Evidence for Solid-like Hydrogen in a Nanoporous Carbon Hydrogen Storage Material at Supercritical Temperatures

Journal Article · Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · ACS Nano

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b02623· OSTI ID:1355879

Ting, Valeska P. ^[1]; Ramirez-Cuesta, Anibal J. ^[2]; Bimbo, Nuno ^[1]; Sharpe, Jessica E. ^[1]; Noguera-Diaz, Antonio ^[1]; Presser, Volker ^[3]; Rudic, Svemir ^[4]; Mays, Timothy J. ^[1]

Univ. of Bath (United Kingdom). Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Chemical and Engineering Materials Division
Leibniz Inst. for New Materials (INM), Saarbrucken (Germany); Saarland Univ. (Germany). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Oxford (United Kingdom). Rutherford Appleton Lab., ISIS Neutron Source

Here in this paper we report direct physical evidence that confinement of molecular hydrogen (H₂) in an optimized nanoporous carbon results in accumulation of hydrogen with characteristics commensurate with solid H₂ at temperatures up to 67 K above the liquid vapor critical temperature of bulk H₂. This extreme densification is attributed to confinement of 112 molecules in the optimally sized micropores, and occurs at pressures as low as 0.02 MPa. The quantities of contained, solid-like H₂ increased with pressure and were directly evaluated using in situ inelastic neutron scattering and confirmed by analysis of gas sorption isotherms. The demonstration of the existence of solid-like H₂ challenges the existing assumption that supercritical hydrogen confined in nanopores has an upper limit of liquid H₂ density. Thus, this insight offers opportunities for the development of more accurate models for the evaluation and design of nanoporous materials for high capacity adsorptive hydrogen storage.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1355879

Journal Information:: ACS Nano, Vol. 9, Issue 8; ISSN 1936-0851

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