Título: Activation of polymer blend carbon nanofibres by alkaline hydroxides and their hydrogen storage performances
Autores: Suárez García, Fabián
Vilaplana Ortego, Eduardo
Kunowsky, Mirko
Kimura, M.
Oya, Asao
Linares Solano, Ángel
Fecha: 2012-01-19
2012-01-19
2009
2009-11
Publicador: RUA Docencia
Fuente:
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Tema: Carbon nanofibres
Chemical activation
Hydrogen storage
Packing density
Ciencia de los Materiales e Ingeniería Metalúrgica
Química Inorgánica
Descripción: In the present work we study the hydroxide activation (NaOH and KOH) of phenol-formaldehyde resin derived CNFs prepared by a polymer blend technique to prepare highly porous activated carbon nanofibres (ACNFs). Morphology and textural characteristics of these ACNFs were studied and their hydrogen storage capacities at 77 K (at 0.1 MPa and at high pressures up to 4 MPa) were assessed, and compared, with reported capacities of other porous carbon materials. Phenol-formaldehyde resin derived carbon fibres were successfully activated with these two alkaline hydroxides rendering highly microporous ACNFs with reasonable good activation process yields up to 47 wt.% compared to 7 wt.% yields from steam activation for similar surface areas of 1500 m2/g or higher. These nano-sized activated carbons present interesting H2 storage capacities at 77 K which are comparable, or even higher, to other high quality microporous carbon materials. This observation is due, in part, to their nano-sized diameters allowing to enhance their packing densities to 0.71 g/cm3 and hence their resulting hydrogen storage capacities.
MEC (Acción complementaria; ENE2005-23824-E/CON), Generalitat Valenciana (Acción complementaria; ACOMP06/089), MICINN (Project CTQ2006-08958/PPQ).
Idioma: Inglés

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