QENS studies of improved hydrogen release in nanostructured ammonia borane fibres

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Increasing the density of hydrogen storage is critical for the commercial introduction of hydrogen vehicles. Our nanostructured electrospun ammonia borane (AB)-polystyrene (PS) fibres hit the US DoE 2010 targets for storage capacity and H2 release rate. Previous AB-PS samples were insufficiently nanostructured to show the expected changes from the bulk, but our latest fibres show desorption kinetics 15x faster than bulk AB, and we would like to compare these samples with QENS data of pure AB thermolysis from a previous experiment. Using QENS and in-situ diffraction, in conjunction with INS, FTIR and DSC, and XRD, we hope to link the faster kinetics to H diffusion, and the AB fibres' nanostructural evolution, thus understanding the improvement in hydrogen storage properties and contributing to the commercial possibilities of these materials.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24087888
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24087888
Provenance
Creator Professor Steve Bennington; Dr Arthur Lovell; Ms Atahl Nathanson; Dr Neal Skipper; Dr Tom Headen
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-10-05T08:23:12Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-10-12T08:27:46Z