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Granja-DelRío A, Cabria I. Insights into hydrogen and methane storage capacities: Grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations of SIGSUA. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:154712. [PMID: 38634495 DOI: 10.1063/5.0193291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 04/01/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024] Open
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In the pursuit of sustainable energy solutions, the development of materials with efficient hydrogen and methane storage capacities is imperative, particularly for advancing hydrogen-powered vehicles. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as promising candidates to meet the stringent targets set by the Department of Energy for both hydrogen and methane storage. This study employs Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the usable hydrogen and methane gravimetric and volumetric storage capacities of the recently synthesized SIGSUA. A comparative analysis encompasses the selected MOFs with similar metal compositions, those with comparable density and average pore radius, and classical benchmarks, such as IRMOF-15 and IRMOF-20, all evaluated at room temperature and moderate pressures ranging from 25 to 35 MPa. The results reveal that SIGSUA demonstrates noteworthy gravimetric and volumetric storage capacities for both hydrogen and methane, rivaling or surpassing those of the selected MOFs for analysis. These findings underscore the potential of SIGSUA in advancing clean energy storage technologies.
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- A Granja-DelRío
- Departamento de Física Teórica, Atómica y Óptica, Universidad de Valladolid, ES-47011 Valladolid, Spain
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- Departamento de Física Teórica, Atómica y Óptica, Universidad de Valladolid, ES-47011 Valladolid, Spain
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Rayón VM, Cabria I. Assessment of density functional approximations for N 2 and CO 2 physisorption on benzene and graphene. J Comput Chem 2022; 43:1403-1419. [PMID: 35668546 PMCID: PMC9328377 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2022] [Revised: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 05/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Experimental isotherms of N2 and CO2 on carbon‐based porous materials and models of the physisorption of gases on surfaces are used to obtain the pore size distribution (PSD). An accurate modelization of the physisorption of N2 and CO2 on the surface of carbon‐based porous materials is important to obtain accurate N2 and CO2 storage capacities and reliable PSDs. Physisorption depends on the dispersion interactions. High precision ab initio methods, such as CCSD(T), consider accurately the dispersion interactions, but they are computationally expensive. Double hybrid, hybrid and DFT‐based methods are much less expensive. In the case of graphene, there are experimental data of the adsorption of N2 and CO2 on graphite that can be used to build the Steele interaction potential of these gases on graphene. The goal is to find out hybrid and/or DFT methods that are as accurate as the CCSD(T) on benzene and as accurate as the experimental results on graphene. Calculations of the interaction energy curves of N2 and CO2 on benzene and graphene have been carried out using the CCSD(T) method and several double hybrid, hybrid, and DFT methods that consider the dispersion interactions. The energy curves on benzene have been compared to the CCSD(T) and the energy curves on graphene have been compared with the Steele energy curves. The comparisons indicate that double hybrids with dispersion corrections and ωB97 based DFT methods are accurate enough for benzene. For graphene, only the PBE‐XDM functional has a good agreement with the Steele energy curves.
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- Víctor M Rayón
- Departamento de Química Física y Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
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- Departamento de Física Teórica, Atómica y Óptica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
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Alonso JA, Cabria I, López MJ. The Storage of Hydrogen in Nanoporous Carbons. J MEX CHEM SOC 2017. [DOI: 10.29356/jmcs.v56i3.288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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An efficient storage of hydrogen is a crucial requirement for its use as a fuel in the cars of the future. Experimental and theoretical work has revealed that porous carbons are promising materials for storing molecular hydrogen, adsorbed on the surfaces of the pores. The microstructure of porous carbons is not well known, and we have investigated a class of porous carbons, the carbide-derived carbons, by computer simulation, showing that these materials exhibit a structure of connected pores of nanometric size, with graphitic-like walls. We then apply a thermodynamical model of hydrogen storage in planar and curved pores. The model accounts for the quantum effects of the motion of the molecules in the confining potential of the pores. The optimal pore sizes yielding the highest storage capacities depend mainly on the shape of the pore, and slightly on temperature and pressure. At 300 K and 10 MPa, the optimal widths of the pores lie in the range 6-10 Å. The theoretical predictions are consistent with experiments for activated carbons. The calculated storage capacities of those materials at room temperature fall below the targets. This is a consequence of an insufficiently strong attractive interaction between the hydrogen molecules and the walls of carbon pores. Recent work indicates the beneficial effect of metallic doping of the porous carbons in enhancing the binding energy of H<sub>2</sub> to the pore walls, and then the hydrogen storage.
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Cabria I, López MJ, Alonso JA. Searching for DFT-based methods that include dispersion interactions to calculate the physisorption of H2 on benzene and graphene. J Chem Phys 2017; 146:214104. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4984106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- I. Cabria
- Departamento de Física Teórica, Atómica y Óptica, Universidad de Valladolid, 47011 Valladolid, Spain
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- Departamento de Física Teórica, Atómica y Óptica, Universidad de Valladolid, 47011 Valladolid, Spain
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- Departamento de Física Teórica, Atómica y Óptica, Universidad de Valladolid, 47011 Valladolid, Spain
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Gondra I, Cabria I. Computing force field-based directional maps in subquadratic time. Knowl Based Syst 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2015.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Rozada R, Paredes JI, López MJ, Villar-Rodil S, Cabria I, Alonso JA, Martínez-Alonso A, Tascón JMD. From graphene oxide to pristine graphene: revealing the inner workings of the full structural restoration. Nanoscale 2015; 7:2374-90. [PMID: 25563664 DOI: 10.1039/c4nr05816j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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High temperature annealing is the only method known to date that allows the complete repair of a defective lattice of graphenes derived from graphite oxide, but most of the relevant aspects of such restoration processes are poorly understood. Here, we investigate both experimentally (scanning probe microscopy) and theoretically (molecular dynamics simulations) the thermal evolution of individual graphene oxide sheets, which is rationalized on the basis of the generation and the dynamics of atomic vacancies in the carbon lattice. For unreduced and mildly reduced graphene oxide sheets, the amount of generated vacancies was so large that they disintegrated at 1773-2073 K. By contrast, highly reduced sheets survived annealing and their structure could be completely restored at 2073 K. For the latter, a minor atomic-sized defect with six-fold symmetry was observed and ascribed to a stable cluster of nitrogen dopants. The thermal behavior of the sheets was significantly altered when they were supported on a vacancy-decorated graphite substrate, as well as for the overlapped/stacked sheets. In these cases, a net transfer of carbon atoms between neighboring sheets via atomic vacancies takes place, affording an additional healing process. Direct evidence of sheet coalescence with the step edge of the graphite substrate was also gathered from experiments and theory.
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- Rubén Rozada
- Instituto Nacional del Carbón, INCAR-CSIC, Apartado 73, 33080 Oviedo, Spain.
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Granja A, Alonso JA, Cabria I, López MJ. Competition between molecular and dissociative adsorption of hydrogen on palladium clusters deposited on defective graphene. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra08091f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The contribution of Pd doping to enhance the hydrogen storage capacity of porous carbon materials is investigated.
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- Alejandra Granja
- Departamento de Física Teórica
- Atómica y Óptica
- Universidad de Valladolid
- Valladolid
- Spain
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- Departamento de Física Teórica
- Atómica y Óptica
- Universidad de Valladolid
- Valladolid
- Spain
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- Departamento de Física Teórica
- Atómica y Óptica
- Universidad de Valladolid
- Valladolid
- Spain
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- Departamento de Física Teórica
- Atómica y Óptica
- Universidad de Valladolid
- Valladolid
- Spain
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Nanoporous carbon refers to a broad class of materials characterized by nanometer-size pores, densities lower than water, large specific surface areas, and high porosities. These materials find applications in nanocatalysis and gas adsorption, among others. The porosity structure, that determines the properties and functionalities of these materials, is still not characterized in detail. Here, we reveal the detail porosity structure and the electronic properties of a type of nanoporous carbons, the so called carbide derived carbons (CDCs), through a simulation scheme that combines large simulation cells and long time scales at the empirical level with first-principles density functional calculations. We show that the carbon network consists in one layer thick nanographenes interconnected among them. The presence of specific defects in the carbon layers (heptagons and octagons) yields to open pores. These defects are not completely removed through annealing at high temperatures. We also suggest that, in contrast with graphene which is a zero-gap semiconductor, these materials would have a metallic character, since they develop an electronic band around the Fermi level. This band arises from the electronic states localized at the edges of the nanographene layers.
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- María J López
- Departamento de Física Teórica, Atómica y Óptica, Universidad de Valladolid, 47005 Valladolid, Spain.
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Cabria I, López MJ, Alonso JA. Interaction of narrow carbon nanotubes with nitronium tetrafluoroborate salts. J Chem Phys 2008; 128:214703. [DOI: 10.1063/1.2931455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Cabria I, López MJ, Alonso JA. Hydrogen storage in pure and Li-doped carbon nanopores: Combined effects of concavity and doping. J Chem Phys 2008; 128:144704. [PMID: 18412468 DOI: 10.1063/1.2900964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- I Cabria
- Departamento de Física Teórica, Atómica y Optica, Universidad de Valladolid, 47005 Valladolid, Spain.
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Density-functional calculations of the adsorption of molecular hydrogen on a planar graphene layer and on the external surface of a (4,4) carbon nanotube, undoped and doped with lithium, have been carried out. Hydrogen molecules are physisorbed on pure graphene and on the nanotube with binding energies about 80-90 meV/molecule. However, the binding energies increase to 160-180 meV/molecule for many adsorption configurations of the molecule near a Li atom in the doped systems. A charge-density analysis shows that the origin of the increase in binding energy is the electronic charge transfer from the Li atom to graphene and the nanotube. The results support and explain qualitatively the enhancement of the hydrogen storage capacity observed in some experiments of hydrogen adsorption on carbon nanotubes doped with alkali atoms.
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- I Cabria
- Departamento de Física Teórica, Atómica y Optica, Universidad de Valladolid, 47005 Valladolid, Spain.
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Gambardella P, Rusponi S, Veronese M, Dhesi SS, Grazioli C, Dallmeyer A, Cabria I, Zeller R, Dederichs PH, Kern K, Carbone C, Brune H. Giant magnetic anisotropy of single cobalt atoms and nanoparticles. Science 2003; 300:1130-3. [PMID: 12750516 DOI: 10.1126/science.1082857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 314] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The isotropic magnetic moment of a free atom is shown to develop giant magnetic anisotropy energy due to symmetry reduction at an atomically ordered surface. Single cobalt atoms deposited onto platinum (111) are found to have a magnetic anisotropy energy of 9 millielectron volts per atom arising from the combination of unquenched orbital moments (1.1 Bohr magnetons) and strong spin-orbit coupling induced by the platinum substrate. By assembling cobalt nanoparticles containing up to 40 atoms, the magnetic anisotropy energy is further shown to be dependent on single-atom coordination changes. These results confirm theoretical predictions and are of fundamental value to understanding how magnetic anisotropy develops in finite-sized magnetic particles.
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- P Gambardella
- Institut de Physique des Nanostructures, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Nonas B, Cabria I, Zeller R, Dederichs PH, Huhne T, Ebert H. Strongly enhanced orbital moments and anisotropies of adatoms on the Ag(001) surface. Phys Rev Lett 2001; 86:2146-2149. [PMID: 11289876 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.86.2146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2000] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We present ab initio calculations for orbital moments and anisotropy energies of 3d and 5d adatoms on the Ag(001) surface, based on density functional theory, including Brooks' orbital polarization (OP) term, and applying a fully relativistic Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker-Green's function method. In general, we find unusually large orbital moments and anisotropy energies, e.g., in the 3d series, 2.57 mu(B) and +74 meV for Co, and, in the 5d series, 1.78 mu(B) and +42 meV for Os. These magnetic properties are determined mainly by the OP and even exist without spin-orbit coupling.
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- B Nonas
- Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany
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