Enhanced H2 storage in silicene through lithium decoration and single vacancy and Stone‐Wales defects: A density functional theory investigation

Author:

Seth Aqshat1,Gattu Sai Spoorti1,Sai Srinivasan K. V.2ORCID,Sujith Ravindran13ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Mechanical Engineering Birla Institute of Technology and Science‐Pilani, Hyderabad Campus Hyderabad India

2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA

3. Materials Center for Sustainable Energy and Environment Birla Institute of Technology and Science‐Pilani, Hyderabad Campus Hyderabad India

Abstract

AbstractDefect engineering and metal decoration onto 2‐D materials have gained major attention as a means of creating viable hydrogen storage materials. This Density Functional Theory (DFT) based study presents lithium decorated single vacancy (SV) and Stone‐Wales (SW) defective silicene as a viable media for storing hydrogen via physisorption. Introducing defects increases the Li adatom's binding energy from −2.36 eV in pristine silicene to −3.44 and −2.73 eV in SV and SW silicene, respectively, preventing Li adatom clustering. The presence of defects and Li adatom further aid hydrogen adsorption onto the substrates with binding energies present between the US‐DOE set range of −0.2 to −0.7 eV/H2 with the highest binding energy measured to be −0.389 eV/H2. The enhanced H2 binding energies are a result of a combined contribution of the Li(p) and Li(s) orbitals with the H(s) orbital with an indirect electronic transfer from the silicene substrate to the Li adatom. Upon double side Li decoration, both the Li‐decorated defective systems were able to effectively store multiple H2 molecules up to 28 H2 with the highest gravimetric density being 5.97 wt%. Ab Initio molecular dynamic simulations conducted at 300 K and 310 K confirm the stability of the Li adatom as well as the adsorbed H2 molecules at room temperature and establish the viability of these systems as effective, high gravimetric density, physisorption‐based hydrogen storage media.

Funder

Science and Engineering Research Board

Publisher

Wiley

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