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Bullet-like vanadium-based MOFs as a highly active catalyst for promoting the hydrogen storage property in MgH2

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The practical application of magnesium hydride (MgH2) was seriously limited by its high desorption temperature and slow desorption kinetics. In this study, a bullet-like catalyst based on vanadium related MOFs (MOFs-V) was successfully synthesized and doped with MgH2 by ball milling to improve its hydrogen storage performance. Microstructure analysis demonstrated that the as-synthesized MOFs was consisted of V2O3 with a bullet-like structure. After adding 7wt% MOFs-V, the initial desorption temperature of MgH2 was reduced from 340.0 to 190.6°C. Besides, the MgH2+7wt%MOFs-V composite released 6.4wt% H2 within 5 min at 300°C. Hydrogen uptake was started at 60°C under 3200 kPa hydrogen pressure for the 7wt% MOFs-V containing sample. The desorption and absorption apparent activity energies of the MgH2+7wt%MOFs-V composite were calculated to be (98.4 ± 2.9) and (30.3 ± 2.1) kJ·mol−1, much lower than (157.5 ± 3.3) and (78.2 ± 3.4) kJ·mol−1 for the as-prepared MgH2. The MgH2+7wt%MOFs-V composite exhibited superior cyclic property. During the 20 cycles isothermal dehydrogenation and hydrogenation experiments, the hydrogen storage capacity stayed almost unchanged. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray photoelectron spectrometer (XPS) measurements confirmed the presence of metallic vanadium in the MgH2+7wt%MOFs-V composite, which served as catalytic unit to markedly improve the hydrogen storage properties of Mg/MgH2 system.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51801078) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20180986).

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    Zhiyu Lu, Mengchen Song, Yan Zhang, Jiaguang Zheng & Liuting Zhang

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  3. State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China

    Jiahuan He & Lixin Chen

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Lu, Z., He, J., Song, M. et al. Bullet-like vanadium-based MOFs as a highly active catalyst for promoting the hydrogen storage property in MgH2. Int J Miner Metall Mater 30, 44–53 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-021-2372-5

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