Catalytically Enhanced Hydrogen Storage Properties of Mg(NH2)2 + 2LiH Material by Graphite-Supported Ru Nanoparticles

Identification of effective catalyst has been a subject of great interest and challenge in developing metal−N−H systems as potential hydrogen storage media. Motivated by the mechanistic understanding of the essential amide/imide conversion, we experimentally examined the possibility of N−H bond acti...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of physical chemistry. C 2008-11, Vol.112 (46), p.18280-18285
Hauptverfasser: Ma, Lai-Peng, Dai, Hong-Bin, Liang, Yan, Kang, Xiang-Dong, Fang, Zhan-Zhao, Wang, Pei-Jun, Wang, Ping, Cheng, Hui-Ming
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Zusammenfassung:Identification of effective catalyst has been a subject of great interest and challenge in developing metal−N−H systems as potential hydrogen storage media. Motivated by the mechanistic understanding of the essential amide/imide conversion, we experimentally examined the possibility of N−H bond activation by using metal catalyst. We prepared the graphite-supported Ru nanoparticles (Ru/C catalyst) and evaluated their effect on the hydrogen storage properties of Mg(NH2)2 + 2LiH material. Our studies show that the Ru/C catalyst is catalytically active toward both dehydrogenation and rehydrogenation reactions of Mg(NH2)2 + 2LiH. Moreover, the catalytically enhanced hydrogen sorption kinetics persists well over 10 de/rehydrogenation cycles. Careful examination of the isothermal dehydrogenation behaviors suggests that the enhanced dehydrogenation kinetics may result from the Ru-catalyzed interface reaction between amide and imide solid phases. This is consistent with the Fourier transform infrared results, which show clearly the promoting effect of Ru catalyst on the N−H bond reconstruction. Finally, the catalytic mechanism of Ru catalyst on the reversible dehydrogenation reactions of Mg(NH2)2 + 2LiH material is discussed.
ISSN:1932-7447
1932-7455
DOI:10.1021/jp806680n