Topical Collection on "Carbon Materials for Hydrogen Storage Promote Sustainable Ecology"

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025

Collection Editors: 

Dr. Indra Neel Pulidindi
Jesus' Scientific Consultancy for Industrial and Academic Research (JSCIAR) Tharamani 600113, India.
Interests: energy and ecology

Prof. Dr. Bhawna Yadav Lamba
School of Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun 248007, India; Centre for Alternate Energy Research, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun 248007, India.
Interests: energy; biofuels; petroleum fuels and hydrogen; waste management

Prof. Dr. Thirukkallam Kanthadai Varadarajan
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India.
Interests: kinetics and catalysis

Prof. Dr. Balasubramanian Viswanathan
NCCR, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India.
Interests: catalysis; materials science; nanotechnology; ecology

Topical Collection Information:

Dear Colleagues,

The cause of global war that we currently witness is resource depletion and scarcity of resources resulting in unwanted invasions. There is absolute need for green, clean and sustainable energy sources to address the concerns the world is currently facing, including, irreparable damage to ecology. Hydrogen is one such energy carrier that could be a substitute to fossil based resources for transportation and domestic needs. This is because of the high gravimetric energy density of hydrogen which is in the range of 120 MJ/kg (lower heating value) to 143 MJ/kg (higher heating value). Hydrogen is a renewable and sustainable energy source. The three main challenges in the commercialization of hydrogen as an energy carrier and its use as an alternative to fossil based fuels are its production, storage and distribution. As the storage of hydrogen in solid matrices is necessary for the safe, effective and efficient utilization of energy, the emphasis and the focus of this special issue is on hydrogen storage materials, especially, the carbon materials and not on the other two problems that were mentioned earlier, namely, production and distribution. Among various solid state materials widely investigated for the storage of hydrogen, namely, light weight metal alloys of Mg, metal hydrides, complex metal hydrides, metal organic frameworks, and carbon materials, the carbon materials standout. The two bench marks for the effective storage and utilization of hydrogen for commercial scale exploitation set by the US department of energy (DoE) were (i) hydrogen gravimetric storage capacity of 6.5 wt. % by the year 2025 and (ii) the H2 adsorption energy of the storage media in the range of – 0.1 to – 0.4 eV/H2 for the reversible hydrogen storage at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. From the latest research and development, carbon materials (surface functionalized, and doped with heteroatom and containing nanoparticles of metals) seems to be ideal candidates for attaining the target set by DoE. Owing to the growing intensity of research into this field it is intended to bring about a special issue on this topic to make the new knowledge accessible to the research fraternity freely. Any success towards the goal of hydrogen economy leads to sustainable ecology, which has been the objective in launching this thematic collection. The researchers working on this problem are encouraged to communicate their results and publish in this topical collection.

Prof. Dr. Indra Neel Pulidindi
Prof. Dr. Bhawna Yadav Lamba
Prof. Dr. Thirukkallam Kanthadai Varadarajan
Prof. Dr. Balasubramanian Viswanathan
Collection Editors

Keywords:

  • Sustainable ecology
  • Carbon materials
  • Hydrogen
  • Adsorption
  • Desorption
  • Kinetics
  • Thermodynamics
  • Biomass
  • Microporous
  • Activated carbon
  • Hetero atom
  • Doping