Abstract
Hydrogen storage has been a bottleneck factor for the application of hydrogen energy. Hydrogen storage capacity for titanium-decorated boron-doped C20 fullerenes has been investigated using the density functional theory. Different boron-doped C20 fullerene absorbents are examined to avoid titanium atom clustering. According to our research, with three carbon atoms in the pentagonal ring replaced by boron atoms, the binding interaction between the Ti atom and C20 fullerene is stronger than the cohesive energy of titanium. The calculated results revealed that one Ti atom can reversibly adsorb four H2 molecules with an average adsorption energy of −1.52 eV and an average desorption temperature of 522.5 K. The stability of the best absorbent structure with a gravimetric density of 4.68 wt% has been confirmed by ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. These findings suggest that titanium-decorated boron-doped C20 fullerenes could be considered as a potential candidate for hydrogen storage devices.
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