Hydrogen Storage in High Surface Area Carbons with Identical Surface Areas but Different Pore Sizes: Direct Demonstration of the Effects of Pore Size
Hydrogen Storage in High Surface Area Carbons with Identical Surface Areas but Different Pore Sizes: Direct Demonstration of the Effects of Pore Size
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DOI:
10.1021/jp3100365
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发表时间:
2012-11
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3.7
通讯作者:
Eric Masika;R. Mokaya
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作者:
Eric Masika;R. Mokaya
We present experimental data that directly shows the effect of pore size on hydrogen uptake in high surface area porous carbons. A direct study of the influence of pore size has been made possible by comparing the uptake capacity of porous carbons with identical surface areas but with different pore sizes and pore size distributions. A variety of synthesis methods have been used to prepare carbon materials with similar surface areas with pore sizes ranging from the micropore range (12 A) to supermicropore/lower mesopore (23 A) and lower mesopore (31 A) range. This allowed a simple and straightforward analysis of the influence of pore size without any changes in total surface area. The pore size essentially defines the hydrogen uptake with no apparent regard to the similar surface areas. The excess and total hydrogen uptake (at −196 °C and 20 bar) of carbons with identical surface areas of 3340 m2/g, increased from 3.7 and 5.4 wt % (31 A sample), to 4.8 and 6.3 wt % (23 A sample) and to 6.3 and 7.3 wt % fo...