Carbon nanofibers , hydrogen storage properties

The investigation of hydrogen sorption properties of the MgH2-CNF composites, obtained by mechanochemical treatment of mixtures of the components, testifies about availability of use of carbon nanofibers for creation of hydrogen storage composite materials. 

Over the last 2 decades, there has been an increasing interest in the development of one-dimensional nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes (Ounaies et al., 2003), bacterial nanofibers (Yano et al., 2005), silica nanotubes (Miyaji et al., 2003), and titanium dioxide nanotubes and nanowires (Yuan and Su, 2004). These new materials have relatively large specific surface areas and high aspect ratios hence, they are suitable for use as reinforcements, chemical probes, sensors, hydrogen storage, displays, and templates. One-dimension material/polymer nanocomposites allow us to take advantage of the extraordinary properties of one-dimension nanomaterials. 

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