Author(s)

Yury S. Nechaev^1*, Alp Yürüm², Adem Tekin³, Nilgün Karatepe Yavuz⁴, Yuda Yürüm⁵, T. Nejat Veziroglu⁶

¹Bardin Institute for Ferrous Metallurgy, Moscow, Russia.
²Nanotechnology Research and Application Center, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.
³Informatics Institute, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁴Energy Institute, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁵Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁶International Association for Hydrogen Energy, Miami, USA.

Herein, some fundamental open questions on engineering of “super” hydrogen sorption (storage) in carbonaceous nanomaterials are considered, namely: 1) on thermodynamic stability and related characteristics of some hydrogenated graphene layers nanostructures: relevance to the hydrogen storage problem; 2) determination of thermodynamic characteristics of graphene hydrides; 3) a treatment and interpretation of some recent STM, STS, HREELS/LEED, PES, ARPS and Raman spectroscopy data on hydrogensorbtion with epitaxial graphenes; 4) on the physics of intercalation of hydrogen into surface graphene-like nanoblisters in pyrolytic graphite and epitaxial graphenes; 5) on the physics of the elastic and plastic deformation of graphene walls in hydrogenated graphite nanofibers; 6) on the physics of engineering of “super” hydrogen sorption (storage) in carbonaceous nanomaterials, in the light of analysis of the Rodriguez-Baker extraordinary data and some others. These fundamental open questions may be solved within several years.

Hydrogen “Super” Sorption (Storage), Graphenes, Carbon Nanotubes, Graphite Nanofibers, A Breakthrough Hydrogen Storage Nanotecnology, Clean Energy Applications

Nechaev, Y. , Yürüm, A. , Tekin, A. , Yavuz, N. , Yürüm, Y. and Veziroglu, T. (2014) Fundamental Open Questions on Engineering of “Super” Hydrogen Sorption in Graphite Nanofibers: Relevance for Clean Energy Applications. American Journal of Analytical Chemistry, 5, 1151-1165. doi: 10.4236/ajac.2014.516122.