High-Capacity Room-Temperature Hydrogen Storage of Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework/Graphene Oxide Promoted by Platinum Metal Catalyst
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international journal of hydrogen energy xxx (2015) 1e11 Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/he High-capacity room-temperature hydrogen storage of zeolitic imidazolate framework/graphene oxide promoted by platinum metal catalyst Hu Zhou a, Jun Zhang b, Jian Zhang b, Xiufen Yan b, Xiaoping Shen c, * Aihua Yuan b, a School of Material Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, PR China b School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, PR China c School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, PR China article info abstract Article history: Pt nanoparticles (NPs) have been immobilized on the support of nanoscale zeolitic imi- Received 12 January 2015 dazolate framework (ZIF-8) and graphene oxide (GO) via a facile liquid impregnation Received in revised form method, in which H2PtCl6, NaBH4 and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) act as the Pt precursor, 29 May 2015 reducing and stabilizing agents, respectively. The resulting Pt@ZIF-8/GO composite was Accepted 30 May 2015 characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron mi- Available online xxx croscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, induc- tively coupled plasma emission spectroscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy and N2 Keywords: adsorption-desorption analysis. The results showed that Pt metal catalysts with an average MOF size of 3.8 nm were highly dispersed and anchored tightly on the external surface of the Graphene oxide ZIF-8/GO support. The hydrogen storage performance of Pt@ZIF-8/GO was investigated. Platinum The hydrogen storage capacity of Pt@ZIF-8/GO at 298 K and 10.0 bar is 2.2 times higher than Hydrogen storage that of the parent ZIF-8. The enhanced hydrogen storage capacity is mainly attributed to Spillover the hydrogen spillover mechanism involved in such catalytic systems. The high dispersion and small size of Pt NPs, as well as intimate contacts between the Pt dissociation source and ZIF-8/GO receptor are crucial to achieving such an obvious increase in room- temperature hydrogen storage capacity. Copyright © 2015, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. storage is one of the key issues for realizing the hydrogen Introduction economy [1]. Porous materials have been developed as promising candidates for hydrogen storage, among which Hydrogen is considered as a clean energy carrier and alter- metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have become a rapidly native fuel source for on-board applications. Hydrogen * Corresponding author. Tel.: þ86 511 85639001. E-mail address: [email protected] (A. Yuan). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2015.05.199 0360-3199/Copyright © 2015, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Please cite this article in press as: Zhou H, et al., High-capacity room-temperature hydrogen storage of zeolitic imidazolate framework/ graphene oxide promoted by platinum metal catalyst, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2015), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ j.ijhydene.2015.05.199 2 international journal of hydrogen energy xxx (2015) 1e11 developing research area and attracted tremendous attention and rich functional oxygen groups that enhance the disper- because of their chemically tunable structures, light weight, sive forces and increase the porosity of materials by incor- exceptional high surface areas and porosities [2,3]. Extraordi- porating into composites [44,45]. For example, Bandosz and narily high hydrogen uptakes were achieved on porous MOFs other groups have prepared several samples of MOF/GO hy- at cryogenic temperature (e.g., 77 K) [4e6]. However, their brids such as MOF-5/GO [46,47], HKUST-1/GO [48], MIL-100(Fe)/ storage capacities decrease dramatically when the tempera- GO [49], MIL-101(Cr)/GO [50], MOF-199/GO [51], MIL-53(Fe)/GO ture increases due to the weak van der Waals forces between [52] and ZIF-8/GO [53]. The synergistic effects on porosity hydrogen molecules and MOFs. In fact, high ambient- and chemistry of such composites result in a significant temperature hydrogen storage capacities are more desirable improvement in the adsorption of various gases (NH3,NO2, e and important from the viewpoints of practical applications in H2S, H2,CO2) [54 61], solvents (n-hexane [62], acetone [63]) mobile systems. and methylene blue from wastewater [64], compared to the To enhance the hydrogen storage performance of adsor- pristine MOFs. In fact, this enhancement can be mainly bents at ambient temperature, a variety of strategies have ascribed to the formation of new pores on the interface be- been proposed and conducted. Among them, catalytic tween two phases (MOF and GO) and active chemistry hydrogen adsorption via spillover is an effective and prom- participating in reactive adsorption. So one may expect that ising approach [7e9]. Hydrogen spillover is typically defined as MOF/GO materials can also be employed as excellent supports the dissociative chemisorption of hydrogen on the metals (Pt, to incorporate metal catalysts, and then improve hydrogen Pd or Ni) and the subsequent migration of atomic hydrogen storage capacities via spillover. In such metal-doped ZIF-8/GO onto the surface of the support [10e12]. In a pioneering work composite system, hydrogen molecules first chemisorbed and by Yang group, significantly enhanced room-temperature dissociated on the surface of metal catalysts, and then hydrogen uptakes were achieved by physically mixing a hydrogen atoms migrated and diffused into the pores of MOF, small amount of Pt/AC (AC ¼ active carbon) catalysts with as well as new pores formed at the interface between GO MOFs and then building carbon bridges between them, in layers and MOF. The formation of these new pores is consid- which the hydrogen atoms moved from Pt surface to AC erably favorable to further improve the hydrogen storage ca- support and then to MOFs. The measured hydrogen storage pacity. In addition, the GO component can also provide a capacities of modified IRMOF-8 and IRMOF-1 were close to 4.0 platform for the migration, diffusion and adsorption of and 3.0 wt% (100 bar, 298 K), respectively, with a factor of 8.0 dissociated hydrogen atoms, which will undoubtedly facilitate compared to pure MOFs [13,14]. With this strategy, significant the whole spillover process and then enhance the adsorption enhancements were also observed subsequently in the same performance. MOF (IRMOF-1) [15] and other MOFs such as MOF-177 [16], In our previous studies, Pt@GO/HKUST-1 and Pt@GO/MIL- ¼ HKUST-1 [17], MIL-101(Cr) [18,19], and M2(BDC)2dabco (M Co, 101(Cr) composites were constructed through in situ reac- Zn; bdc ¼ 1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid; dabco ¼ 1,4- tion between MOF precursors and pre-prepared Pt-doped GO diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane) [20]. component [65,66]. We have demonstrated that the hydrogen In a hydrogen spillover system, the dissociation source, the storage capacities at ambient temperature for the composites contact between the dissociation source and receptor, and the could be significantly enhanced as compared to pure MOFs by nature of receptors are considered as main factors affecting exploiting hydrogen spillover. Although encouraging progress hydrogen storage capacities. Highly dispersed metal catalysts has been achieved in our case, further optimizing metal- enable intimate contacts with MOFs and also with hydrogen doping methods and improving hydrogen spillover efficiency molecules. This will undoubtedly facilitate the dissociation of are still needed to meet the potential application of such hydrogen and diffusion of atomic hydrogen on the surface of materials in hydrogen storage. In fact, during the preparation MOF receptor, hence improve hydrogen storage capacities. of the Pt-doped GO precursor, the oxygen groups on the sur- However, many factors (such as sample amounts, mortar size, face and edge of GO sheets would decrease upon the incor- grinding time and intensity, etc.) in the physical mixing and poration of Pt particles, which is not favorable for the bridge-building process could affect particle sizes and contacts subsequent combination of GO and MOF. To further increase between particles, and then resulted in different connectivities the dispersion of Pt metal catalysts on the support and between particles, leading to poor reproducibility in sample improve contacts between the dissociation sources and re- preparation and storage capacities [21e26]. Recently, doping ceptors, we have tried to incorporate Pt metal catalysts into metal catalysts into MOFs is being widely studied because of the MOF/GO matrix by employing a new metal-doping the abundance of available doping techniques [27e29]. Unlike method. In the process of MOF/GO preparation, the rich oxy- high uncertainty of the physical mixing technique, chemical gen groups of GO can react with metal ions of MOF, which doping metal catalysts onto absorbents produces identical facilitated to generate the well-combined MOF/GO products. samples and exhibits high controllability and repeatability. The present contribution focused on room-temperature More importantly, the doping technique determines the size hydrogen adsorption properties of Pt-loaded zeolitic imida- and distribution of metal NPs, and improves the contact be- zolate framework ZIF-8/GO composite (Pt@ZIF-8/GO), which tween metal catalysts and the