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U.S. Department of Energy s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy within the Center of Excellence on Carbon-based Hydrogen Storage Materials (DE-FC36-05GO15074). 

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A carbon nanotube (CNT) can be described as a graphite sheet rolled up into a nanoscale tube (which are single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs)), or with additional graphene tubes around the core of an SWCNT (which are multiwall CNTs). These CNTs have diameters in the range between fractions of nanometers and tens of nanometers, and lengths up to several centimeters with both of their ends normally capped by fullerene-Uke structures. They will show potential applications in electronic devices, reinforced materials, hydrogen storage, or field emission materials [66]. 

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Other options such as carbon nanotubes and conformable materials are being researched for hydrogen storage [43,44]. These are funded through the DOE hydrogen storage program however, the commercial applicability of these options are at least 10 years away. 

This chapter describes the storage of hydrogen in several forms of carbon, ranging from amorphous activated carbon (AC) to the ordered forms such as graphite and carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Carbon materials can be utilized for hydrogen storage in the following different ways ... 

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