Carbon-Related Materials for Hydrogen Storage Functions

Past Experimentals, Theories/Simulations, and Future Prospects

Abstract

In this review, we first summarize recent experimental and theoretical/simulation researches on various carbon-related materials for hydrogen storage functions. Based on these researches, it would be, we propose, indispensable to design weakly chemisorbed (bonded) sites for atomistic hydrogen in carbon-related materials for better functions. Actually, the mechanically prepared nanostructured graphite is reported to exhibit the notable hydrogen storage functions, probably due to the formation of weakly chemisorbed (bonded) sites. Potential activities of carbon-related materials for hydrogen storage functions are critically, but still positively, described in the review.