Bo Yi
B.E., Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University (Beijing), 1998
M.S., Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University (Beijing), 2001
My current research is focused on modified nanoporous carbon (NPC)
used in hydrogen storage. Carbon materials have been widely studied
in storing hydrogen due to their diversity in nanostructure. NPC
has highly curved graphatic layers and microporosity that can host
hydrogen molecules. Its microposity and mesoporosity can be adjusted
by functional single wall nanotube (f-SWNT). But the binding energy
between carbon and hydrogen is small which leads to an unpractical
low desorption temperature. Noncarbon light-element, like N, B,
has higher binding energy with hydrogen than carbon. Combining NPC
with these elements is a potential way to achieve optimun binding
energy. My current experiment is to treat NPC and SWNT modified
NPC with N, B reagent for optimize nanostructure for hydrogen adsorption.