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Improved hydrogen storage properties of LiBH4 confined with activated charcoal by ball milling

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In order to enhance the hydrogen storage properties of LiBH4, activated charcoal (AC) was used as the scaffold to confine LiBH4 in this paper. Ball milling was used to prepare LiBH4/AC composites. Experimental results show that dehydrogenation properties of ball-milled LiBH4/AC (LiBH4/AC-BM) are greatly improved compared with that of pristine LiBH4, ball-milled LiBH4 (LiBH4-BM) and hand-milled LiBH4/AC (LiBH4/AC-HM). The onset dehydrogenation temperature of LiBH4 for LiBH4/AC-BM is around 160 °C, which is 170 °C lower than that of pristine LiBH4. At around 400 °C, LiBH4/AC-BM finishes the dehydrogenation with a hydrogen capacity of 13.6 wt%, which is approximately the theoretical dehydrogenation capacity of pure LiBH4 (13.8 wt%), while the dehydrogenation processes for LiBH4-BM and LiBH4/AC-BM do not finish even when they were heated to 600 °C. The isothermal dehydriding measurements show that it takes only 15 min for LiBH4/AC-BM to reach a dehydrogenation capacity of 10.1 wt% at 350 °C, whereas the pristine LiBH4 and the LiBH4/AC-HM release hydrogen less than 1 wt% under the same conditions. The dehydrogenation process and the effect of AC were discussed.

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This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51471149 and 51171168) and the Public Project of Zhejiang Province (No. 2015C31029).

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Zhou, H., Wang, XH., Liu, HZ. et al. Improved hydrogen storage properties of LiBH4 confined with activated charcoal by ball milling. Rare Met. 38, 321–326 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-018-1067-1

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