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Fluorinated Covalent Organic Frameworks: A Novel Pathway to Enhance Hydrogen Sorption and Control Isosteric Heats of Adsorption; HyMARC Seed Project Final Report

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1735636· OSTI ID:1735636
Organic framework materials, as a unique sub-class of carbon-based sorbents, have gained increasing attention for promising attributes toward gas storage. Calculations of the hydrogen capacity of optimized frameworks show potential to achieve greater than 60 g/L storage of hydrogen, placing metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and COFs near the top of the class of porous materials. However, at the ensemble level, poor stacking creates a quasi-amorphous material with low structural integrity and low effective surface area. The chemical versatility of COFs allows for additional methods for producing long-range order that specifically target the inter-layer interactions in COFs but that leave key pore-accessible linker sites open. These modifications (either during synthesis or post-synthetic) enable a host of strategies to both improve crystalline order for more stable and higher surface, as well as add metals with open coordination for enhanced H2 binding enthalpy.
Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (EE-3F)
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1735636
Report Number(s):
NREL/TP--5900-76603; MainId:7277; UUID:56cb56ae-2e8a-491a-8500-17dfe31bc128; MainAdminID:18962
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English