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High-Throughput Screening of Porous Crystalline Materials for Hydrogen Storage Capacity near Room Temperature


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Colon, Yamil J 
Fairen-Jimenez, David 
Wilmer, Christopher E 
Snurr, Randall Q 

Abstract

The hydrogen storage capabilities of 18,383 porous crystalline structures possessing various degrees of Mg functionalization and diverse physical properties were assessed through combined grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) and quantum mechanical approaches. GCMC simulations were performed for pressures of 2 and 100 bar at a temperature of 243 K. Absolute uptake at 100 bar and deliverable capacity between 100 bar and 2 bar were calculated. Maximum absolute and deliverable gravimetric capacities were 9.35 wt% and 9.12 wt % respectively. Volumetrically, absolute and deliverable capacities were 51 g/L and 30 g/L respectively. In addition, the results reveal relationships between hydrogen uptake and the physical properties of the materials. We show that the introduction of an optimum amount of Mg alkoxide to increase the isosteric heat of adsorption is a promising strategy to improve hydrogen uptake and delivery near ambient temperature.

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34 Chemical Sciences, 3406 Physical Chemistry

Journal Title

JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C

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Journal ISSN

1932-7447
1932-7455

Volume Title

118

Publisher

American Chemical Society (ACS)
Sponsorship
This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DE-FG02-08EF15967). This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grand No. DGE-0824162 (Y. J. C.). D.F.-J. acknowledges the Royal Society (UK) for a University Research Fellowship. We gratefully acknowledge Northwestern University’s Quest cluster and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center’s Carver Cluster for computer resources.