Boron-neutron Capture on Activated Carbon for Hydrogen Storage

This work investigates the effects of neutron irradiation on nitrogen and hydrogen adsorption in boron-doped activated carbon. Boron-neutron capture generates an energetic lithium nucleus, helium nucleus, and gamma photons, which can alter the surface and structure of pores in activated carbon. The...

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Autores principales: Romanos, Jimmy, Beckner, Matthew, Prosniewski, Matthew, Rash, Tyler, Lee, Mark, Robertson, J. David, Firlej, Lucyna, Kuchta, Bogdan, Pfeifer, Peter
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6393477/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30814562
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39417-6
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author Romanos, Jimmy
Beckner, Matthew
Prosniewski, Matthew
Rash, Tyler
Lee, Mark
Robertson, J. David
Firlej, Lucyna
Kuchta, Bogdan
Pfeifer, Peter
author_facet Romanos, Jimmy
Beckner, Matthew
Prosniewski, Matthew
Rash, Tyler
Lee, Mark
Robertson, J. David
Firlej, Lucyna
Kuchta, Bogdan
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description This work investigates the effects of neutron irradiation on nitrogen and hydrogen adsorption in boron-doped activated carbon. Boron-neutron capture generates an energetic lithium nucleus, helium nucleus, and gamma photons, which can alter the surface and structure of pores in activated carbon. The defects introduced by fission tracks are modeled assuming the slit-shaped pores geometry. Sub-critical nitrogen adsorption shows that nitrogen molecules cannot probe the defects created by fission tracks. Hydrogen adsorption isotherms of irradiated samples indicate higher binding energies compared to their non-irradiated parent samples.
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spelling pubmed-63934772019-03-01 Boron-neutron Capture on Activated Carbon for Hydrogen Storage Romanos, Jimmy Beckner, Matthew Prosniewski, Matthew Rash, Tyler Lee, Mark Robertson, J. David Firlej, Lucyna Kuchta, Bogdan Pfeifer, Peter Sci Rep Article This work investigates the effects of neutron irradiation on nitrogen and hydrogen adsorption in boron-doped activated carbon. Boron-neutron capture generates an energetic lithium nucleus, helium nucleus, and gamma photons, which can alter the surface and structure of pores in activated carbon. The defects introduced by fission tracks are modeled assuming the slit-shaped pores geometry. Sub-critical nitrogen adsorption shows that nitrogen molecules cannot probe the defects created by fission tracks. Hydrogen adsorption isotherms of irradiated samples indicate higher binding energies compared to their non-irradiated parent samples. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6393477/ /pubmed/30814562 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39417-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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