SANS studies of electrospun polystyrene-ammonia borane nanostructures

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Increasing the density of hydrogen storage under ambient conditions is a critical requirement for the widespread introduction of low-carbon hydrogen vehicles. Ammonia borane (AB) is one of the most promising hydrogen storage materials. We have developed a core-shell electrospinning technique than nanostructures and encapsulates the AB in a one step process. The nanostructuring lowers the hydrogen release temperature and time allowing this material to meet 2010 Department of Energy targets. The fibres are a nanostructured 3 phase system of polystyrene, ammonia borane and voids. We intend to use SANS with isotopic substitution to measure the size and shape of each part of the nanostructure. These results will be coupled with hydrogen desorption measurements which will allow us to fully understand and tune the fibre nanostructure for optimum hydrogen desorption characteristics.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24087887
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24087887
Provenance
Creator Professor Steve Bennington; Dr Arthur Lovell; Ms Atahl Nathanson; Dr Tom Headen
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-10-08T05:51:12Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-10-09T20:55:53Z