Hydrogen storage properties specific surface area

R.A. Vaiin, T. Czujko, S. Baksa, Z.S. Wronski, The effect of specific surface area and chemistry of Inco nano-Ni on the hydrogen storage properties of MgHj, (in preparation for publication). 

Carbon nanomaterials are very attractive candidates for hydrogen storage because of an ensemble of positive properties like high specific surface area, microporosity, low mass and good adsorption ability. 

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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