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Tunable Low Density Palladium Nanowire Foams
Dustin A. Gilbert, Edward C. Burks, Sergey V. Ushakov, Patricia
Abellan, Ilke Arslan, Thomas E. Felter, Alexandra Navrotsky, and Kai Liu
Chem. Mater., Just Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b03978 Publication Date (Web): 20 Oct 2017
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Tunable Low Density Palladium Nanowire Foams
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Dustin A. Gilbert, Edward C. Burks, Sergey V. Ushakov, Patricia Abellan, || Ilke Arslan,
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18 Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616
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22 NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
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Peter A. Rock Thermochemistry Laboratory and NEAT ORU, University of California, Davis
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37 Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352
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47 KEYWORDS (low density foams, palladium nanowires, hydrogen absorption, hydrogen
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desorption, microcalorimetry, electrodeposition, first order reversal curves)
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ABSTRACT
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6 Nanostructured palladium foams offer exciting potential for applications in diverse fields
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8 such as catalyst, fuel cell, and particularly hydrogen storage technologies. We have fabricated
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palladium nanowire foams using a cross-linking and freeze-drying technique. These foams have
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13 a tunable density down to 0.1% of the bulk, and a surface area to volume ratio of up to
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15 1.54106:1. They exhibit highly attractive characteristics for hydrogen storage, in terms of
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18 loading capacity, rate of absorption and heat of absorption. The hydrogen absorption/desorption
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20 process is hysteretic in nature, accompanied by substantial lattice expansion/contraction as the
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27 INTRODUCTION
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Low density (LD) materials present exciting opportunities in diverse fields such as
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32 catalysts,1 electronics,2-3 energy production and storage,4-6 heat exchange,7 and structural
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34 materials.8-9 Metal and metal oxide foams are particularly appealing due to their high thermal
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39 chemical properties. Palladium foams, for example, are suitable for organic chemical
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41 synthesis,10-13 pollution control,14-15 hydrogen storage,6, 16 fuel cells,4 and batteries,17-18 where a
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44 high surface area (SA) to volume ratio (SA:V) is desirable. However, LD metal foams fabricated
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46 by traditional techniques are prone to contamination19-20 or poor crystallinity,21 negatively
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51 tunable densities which is crucial for their incorporation into a broad range of technologies.
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and are determined by the gelling density of the suspension, which is not easily tunable.
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using a freeze-cast technique to fabricate Cu nanowire monoliths.26
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13 Here we report the synthesis of LD palladium nanowire foams with density down to 0.1%
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15 of the bulk, fabricated by a freeze-casting technique. This synthesis approach does not use any
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18 caustic chemicals or high temperature/pressure treatments, and can be applied generally to any
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20 aqueous dispersion of nanowires. Palladium foam monoliths demonstrate excellent
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34 EXPERIMENTAL SECTION
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37 Polycrystalline Pd nanowires were fabricated by electrodeposition into porous templates,
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39 then harvested from the templates and suspended in water [Figure 1(a-i)] as discussed in the
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41 Experiment section. Transmission electron microscopy (Supporting Information) shows that the
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44 Pd crystallites possess a preferred (111) orientation along the wire growth direction. To construct
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46 the nanowire foam, the wires were allowed to precipitate out of solution [Figure 1(a-ii)] and the
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sublimate the interstitial ice, leading to the pure Pd nanowire foam [Figure 1(a-vi)]. SEM
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indicating the lattice parameter for the PdH increases with cycling, corresponding to enhanced
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to have increased to 11.4 0.5 m2 g-1 (4.67 105 m-1), a change of 65 %. SEM micrographs
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Rate of absorption (ROA) measurements on the 41 mg cm-3 foam [Figure 3] show an
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brought back to the un-hydrogenated state, thus tracing out a single FORC. A family of FORCs
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technique requires no caustic chemicals or high temperature/pressure processing, and is scalable
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43 Supporting Information.
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46 The following files are available free of charge.
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49 TEM images of electrodeposited Pd nanowires, Krypton adsorption and desorption
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53 S1). SEM images of a sintered Pd nanowire foam (Figure S2), and Gibbs free energy
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AUTHOR INFORMATION
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9 *Kai Liu kailiu@ucdavis.edu
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12 Author Contributions
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15 D.A.G. and K.L. conceived and designed the project. Samples were fabricated by D.A.G. and
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17 E.C.B. Transmission electron microscopy studies were performed by P.A. and I.A. Structural
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change under hydrogen absorption/desorption was analyzed by x-ray diffraction and scanning
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24 and calorimetry studies were performed by S.V.U., D.A.G., and A.N. D.A.G. and K.L. wrote the
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38 This work was supported by the DTRA (Grant #BRCALL08-Per3-C-2-0006, for synthesis), and
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