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. 2021 Mar;16(3):331-336.
doi: 10.1038/s41565-020-00818-8. Epub 2021 Jan 4.

Hydrogen storage in incompletely etched multilayer Ti2CTx at room temperature

Shiyuan Liu  1 , Jieyuan Liu  1 , Xiaofang Liu  1 , Jiaxiang Shang  1 , Li Xu  2 , Ronghai Yu  1 , Jianglan Shui  3
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Hydrogen storage in incompletely etched multilayer Ti2CTx at room temperature

Shiyuan Liu et al. Nat Nanotechnol. 2021 Mar.

Abstract

Hydrogen storage materials are the key to hydrogen energy utilization. However, current materials can hardly meet the storage capacity and/or operability requirements of practical applications. Here we report an advancement in hydrogen storage performance and related mechanism based on a hydrofluoric acid incompletely etched MXene, namely, a multilayered Ti2CTx (T is a functional group) stack that shows an unprecedented hydrogen uptake of 8.8 wt% at room temperature and 60 bar H2. Even under completely ambient conditions (25 °C, 1 bar air), Ti2CTx is still able to retain ~4 wt% hydrogen. The hydrogen storage is stable and reversible in the material, and the hydrogen release is controllable by pressure and temperature below 95 °C. The storage mechanism is deduced to be a nanopump-effect-assisted weak chemisorption in the sub-nanoscale interlayer space of the material. Such a storage approach provides a promising strategy for designing practical hydrogen storage materials.

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