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Boosting Hydrogen Storage Performance of MgH2 by Oxygen Vacancy-Rich H-V2O5 Nanosheet as an Excited H-Pump

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-024-01375-8
Li Ren
National Engineering Research Center of Light Alloys Net Forming & State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
Yinghui Li
National Engineering Research Center of Light Alloys Net Forming & State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
Zi Li
National Engineering Research Center of Light Alloys Net Forming & State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
Xi Lin
National Engineering Research Center of Light Alloys Net Forming & State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
Chong Lu
Instrumental Analysis Center of SJTU, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
Wenjiang Ding
National Engineering Research Center of Light Alloys Net Forming & State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
Jianxin Zou
National Engineering Research Center of Light Alloys Net Forming & State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Jianxin Zou

zoujx@sjtu.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 16 (2024), Article Number: 160

Abstract

MgH2 is a promising high-capacity solid-state hydrogen storage material, while its application is greatly hindered by the high desorption temperature and sluggish kinetics. Herein, intertwined 2D oxygen vacancy-rich V2O5 nanosheets (H-V2O5) are specifically designed and used as catalysts to improve the hydrogen storage properties of MgH2. The as-prepared MgH2-H-V2O5 composites exhibit low desorption temperatures (Tonset = 185 °C) with a hydrogen capacity of 6.54 wt%, fast kinetics (Ea = 84.55 ± 1.37 kJ mol−1 H2 for desorption), and long cycling stability. Impressively, hydrogen absorption can be achieved at a temperature as low as 30 °C with a capacity of 2.38 wt% within 60 min. Moreover, the composites maintain a capacity retention rate of ~ 99% after 100 cycles at 275 °C. Experimental studies and theoretical calculations demonstrate that the in-situ formed VH2/V catalysts, unique 2D structure of H-V2O5 nanosheets, and abundant oxygen vacancies positively contribute to the improved hydrogen sorption properties. Notably, the existence of oxygen vacancies plays a double role, which could not only directly accelerate the hydrogen ab/de-sorption rate of MgH2, but also indirectly affect the activity of the catalytic phase VH2/V, thereby further boosting the hydrogen storage performance of MgH2. This work highlights an oxygen vacancy excited “hydrogen pump” effect of VH2/V on the hydrogen sorption of Mg/MgH2. The strategy developed here may pave a new way toward the development of oxygen vacancy-rich transition metal oxides catalyzed hydride systems.


Highlights:
1 Graphene-like 2D V2O5 nanosheets rich in oxygen vacancies are designed as multi-functional catalysts to fabricate MgH2-H-V2O5 composites.
2 Hydrogen release starts from 185 °C and capacity retention is as high as 99% after 100 cycles at 275 °C.
3 The composites present rapid kinetics and impressive hydrogen absorption capability at near room temperature.
4 The oxygen vacancies could directly enhance kinetics of MgH2 while indirectly exciting “hydrogen pump” effect of VH2/V.

Keywords

Hydrogen storage MgH2 V2O5 nanosheets Oxygen vacancies VH2
Ren, Li, Yinghui Li, Zi Li, Xi Lin, Chong Lu, Wenjiang Ding, and Jianxin Zou. 2024. “Boosting Hydrogen Storage Performance of MgH2 by Oxygen Vacancy-Rich H-V2O5 Nanosheet As an Excited H-Pump”. Nano-Micro Letters 16 (March):160. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-024-01375-8.
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