Hydrogen storage in boron substituted carbon nanotubes

Boron-doped graphene as promising support for platinum catalyst with superior activity towards the methanol electrooxidation reaction

“…In Fig. 2B, the B1s binding energy for boron-doped graphene (191.0 eV) is higher than that for pure boron (187.0 eV [22]), also indicating the bonding of boron atoms to carbon atoms in the sp 2 -C network [38,39]. The B1s peak of boron-doped graphene can be deconvoluted into two peaks at 190.4 eV and 191.9 eV, which are assigned to BC 2 O and BCO 2 , respectively.…”

“…2A, C1s peak of graphene is deconvoluted into three peaks located at 286.1 eV, 285.2 eV and 284.3 eV, which are assigned to CeO, sp 3 -C and sp 2 -C, respectively. For deconvoluted C1s peak of boron-doped graphene, a new peak located at 283.4 eV is observed, which can be assigned to CeB bond, indicating that boron atoms have already been bonded to carbon atoms [38]. Also, it can be observed that the ratio of sp 2 -C is considerably decreased from 74.98% for graphene to 53.29% for boron-doped graphene, which results from the boron doping into sp 2 -C network and is consistent with the Raman spectroscopy results.…”

The study of controlling pore size on electrospun carbon nanofibers for hydrogen adsorption

“…In case of metals and intermetallic compounds, the negative factors for hydrogen storage are either the limitation of storage capacity or the reversibility of stored hydrogen under favor experimental conditions [1][2][3]. Many researchers have paid much attention on hydrogen adsorption in nanostructured carbon base materials, such as activated carbons [4][5][6][7][8], carbon nanotubes [9][10][11], carbon nanofibers [12][13][14][15]. Although a significant amount of research work has dealt with the hydrogen adsorption in carbon-based materials, the search for more suitable hydrogen adsorbents materials and for understanding of the adsorption mechanism of H 2 has increased considerably.…”

Effect of boron concentration on physicochemical properties of boron-doped carbon nanotubes

“…The increase in boron-doping has been found to enhance crystallinity [7] and improve field emission properties when compared to pristine and nitrogen-doped CNTs [8]. Enhanced properties after doping CNTs with boron has resulted in the application of these materials in; hydrogen storage [9], oxygen reduction reactions [10], transparent conducting film [2], secondary batteries [11] and field emitters [12] among others.…”