Record High Hydrogen Storage Capacity in the Metal–Organic Framework Ni2 (m-dobdc) at Near-Ambient Temperatures
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States; Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States; Chemistry &, Nanoscience Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
- Chemistry &, Nanoscience Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
- Materials Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
- Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States; Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
- Chemistry &, Nanoscience Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States; Department of Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
- Department of Physics, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio 44074, United States
- Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States; Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
Hydrogen holds promise as a clean alternative automobile fuel, but its on-board storage presents significant challenges due to the low temperatures and/or high pressures required to achieve a sufficient energy density. The opportunity to significantly reduce the required pressure for high density H2 storage persists for metal-organic frameworks due to their modular structures and large internal surface areas. The measurement of H2 adsorption in such materials under conditions most relevant to on-board storage is crucial to understanding how these materials would perform in actual applications, although such data have to date been lacking. In the present work, the metal-organic frameworks M2(m-dobdc) (M = Co, Ni; m-dobdc4- = 4,6-dioxido-1,3-benzenedicarboxylate) and the isomeric frameworks M2(dobdc) (M = Co, Ni; dobdc4- = 1,4-dioxido-1,3-benzenedicarboxylate), which are known to have open metal cation sites that strongly interact with H2, were evaluated for their usable volumetric H2 storage capacities over a range of near-ambient temperatures relevant to on-board storage. Based upon adsorption isotherm data, Ni2(m-dobdc) was found to be the top-performing physisorptive storage material with a usable volumetric capacity between 100 and 5 bar of 11.0 g/L at 25 degrees C and 23.0 g/L with a temperature swing between -75 and 25 degrees C. Additional neutron diffraction and infrared spectroscopy experiments performed with in situ dosing of D2 or H2 were used to probe the hydrogen storage properties of these materials under the relevant conditions. The results provide benchmark characteristics for comparison with future attempts to achieve improved adsorbents for mobile hydrogen storage applications.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Sustainable Transportation Office. Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technologies Office
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- OSTI ID:
- 1485570
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5K00-72917
- Journal Information:
- Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 30, Issue 22; ISSN 0897-4756
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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