碳纳米管在储氢上的应用

氢能是一种理想的能源载体,而经济有效的储氢手段是氢能实现规模应用急需解决的关键问题之一。碳纳米管在存储氢气上表现出来的独特性质,使其最有希望成为一种新的高效的储氢材料。从实验、理论研究两个方面总结了前人在碳纳米管储氢上的研究成果,并对碳纳米管储氢吸附方式,吸附量影响因素等方面做出分析。最后指出为实现碳纳米管储氢大规模应用仍需做的一些基础性研究工作。

The application of hydrogen storage by carbon nanotubes

Hydrogen is an ideal energy carrier,but how to store hydrogen more efficiently to meet the DOE target has become one of the most urgent and difficult problems to be solved in hydrogen large scale applications.Carbon nanotubes(CNTs) has become a novel promising material for hydrogen storage because of the unique behavior between hydrogen and CNTs.The history of hydrogen storage by carbon nanotubes was reviewed in this article;it also gives some comments of analysis on the aspects of adsorption manner,effects of hydrogen amount uptaken by CNTs and so on.At last,some basic research work needed for large scale application is indicated.