• DocumentCode
    2246839
  • Title

    The effect of defects of single-walled carbon nanotubes on their hydrogen storage capacity

  • Author

    Tran, Nick E. ; Feng, Jerry R. ; Imam, M. Ashraf

  • Author_Institution
    Mater. Sci. & Component Technol. Directorate, Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    2002
  • Firstpage
    397
  • Lastpage
    399
  • Abstract
    Hydrogen absorption of single-walled carbon nanotubes synthesized by the HIPCO, laser ablation, and carbon-arc techniques are evaluated to determine the influence of their chemical and structural defect density on their effectiveness as the nanocontainers of hydrogen. The results indicate that although there was a difference in the defect concentration between the three different SWNT samples, these defects have little effect on their hydrogen storage capacity.
  • Keywords
    carbon nanotubes; crystal defects; hydrogen economy; materials preparation; plasma deposition; pulsed laser deposition; C; C single-walled nanotubes; CHx; HIPCO synthesis; carbon-arc synthesis; chemical defects; defect concentration; hydrogen storage capacity; laser ablation synthesis; nanocontainers; structural defects; Absorption; Atomic force microscopy; Carbon nanotubes; Chemical lasers; Hydrogen storage; Inductors; Laser ablation; Materials science and technology; Optical materials; Temperature;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nanotechnology, 2002. IEEE-NANO 2002. Proceedings of the 2002 2nd IEEE Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7538-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NANO.2002.1032274
  • Filename
    1032274