Hydrogen storage in microporous metal-organic frameworks with exposed metal sites

Mircea Dinca, Steven S. Kaye, Hye Jin Choi, Aude Demessence, Jeffrey R. Long

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Abstract

Materials exhibiting reversible hydrogen adsorption with high gravimetric and volumetric capacities are sought for use in on-board storage systems of hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles. Microporous metal-organic framework solids with high internal surface areas have been shown to display excellent storage properties, but only at cryogenic temperatures. Methods for synthesizing frameworks bearing coordinatively-unsaturated metal centers are therefore being developed as a means of increasing the H2 adsorption enthalpy. Reactions incorporating metal carbonyl units within Zn4O(1,4-benzenedicarboxylate)3 have been devised, and attempts at decarbonylating the resulting materials will be described. In addition, the use of pyrazole-, triazole-, and tetrazole-based ligands for generating frameworks with open metal coordination sites will be discussed, with emphasis on a new sodalite-type framework exhibiting a high volumetric hydrogen storage capacity.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAmerican Chemical Society - 235th National Meeting, Abstracts of Scientific Papers
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event235th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, ACS 2008 - New Orleans, LA, United States
Duration: Apr 6 2008Apr 10 2008

Publication series

NameACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts
ISSN (Print)0065-7727

Other

Other235th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, ACS 2008
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Orleans, LA
Period4/6/084/10/08

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Chemistry
  • General Chemical Engineering

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