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Calcium decoration of boron nitride nanotubes with vacancy defects as potential hydrogen storage materials: A first-principles investigation
- Source :
- Materials Today Communications. 26:101985
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2021.
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Abstract
- Hydrogen adsorption and storage performance of Ca-decorated boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) with vacancy defects are investigated theoretically using the first-principle calculation. Three types of experimentally available defects, B monovacancy (VB), N monovacancy (VN) and B–N divacancy (VNB), are considered. The Ca atom prefers to reside on the vacancy site of BNNTs-VB and BNNTs-VBN without the problem of aggregation. The H2 adsorption results indicate that six H2 can be adsorbed by a Ca atom with the average adsorption energy slightly larger than 0.20 eV/H2. The hydrogen gravimetric density is 6.4 wt.% and 6.9 wt.% for 8Ca/BNNT-VB and 8Ca/BNNT-VBN systems, respectively. The polarization interaction and the weaker orbitals hybridization between Ca and H2 are responsible for the hydrogen adsorption. The stability of the H2 adsorbed complexes is also investigated by considering the temperature and pressure. The results indicate that the H2 adsorbed structures of Ca-decorated BNNSs with VB and VBN defects are stable at room temperature under commonly used mild pressure.
- Subjects :
- Materials science
Hydrogen
chemistry.chemical_element
02 engineering and technology
010402 general chemistry
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
01 natural sciences
0104 chemical sciences
Hydrogen storage
chemistry.chemical_compound
Adsorption
Atomic orbital
chemistry
Mechanics of Materials
Boron nitride
Vacancy defect
Atom
Materials Chemistry
Gravimetric analysis
Physical chemistry
General Materials Science
0210 nano-technology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 23524928
- Volume :
- 26
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Materials Today Communications
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........a365cc3c1d618498b3dc83b4a6ef26f2