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Constructing graphene nanosheet-supported FeOOH nanodots for hydrogen storage of MgH2

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Novel graphene-supported FeOOH nanodots (FeOOH NDs@G) were successfully prepared by a facile hydrothermal method and doped into MgH2 through mechanical ball-milling. MgH2 with 10wt% FeOOH NDs@G began to release hydrogen at 229.8°C, which is 106.8°C lower than that of pure MgH2. The MgH2-10wt% FeOOH NDs@G composite could reversibly absorb 6.0wt% hydrogen at 200°C under a 3.2 MPa hydrogen pressure within 60 min. With the addition of FeOOH NDs@G, the dehydrogenation and hydrogenation activation energy of MgH2 was decreased to 125.03 and 58.20 kJ·mol−1 (156.05 and 82.80 kJ·mol−1 for pure MgH2), respectively. Furthermore, the hydrogen capacity of the FeOOH NDs@G composite retained 98.5% of the initial capacity after 20 cycles, showing good cyclic stability. The catalytic action of FeOOH NDs@G towards MgH2 could be attributed to the synergistic effect between graphene nanosheets and in-situ formed Fe, which prevented the aggregation of Mg/MgH2 particles and accelerated the hydrogen diffusion during cycling, thus enabling the MgH2-10wt% FeOOH NDs@G composite to exhibit excellent hydrogen storage performance.

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The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51801078) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20180986).

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    Mengchen Song, Liuting Zhang, Jiaguang Zheng & Zidong Yu

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Song, M., Zhang, L., Zheng, J. et al. Constructing graphene nanosheet-supported FeOOH nanodots for hydrogen storage of MgH2. Int J Miner Metall Mater 29, 1464–1473 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-021-2393-0

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