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Abstract
Electrochemical hydrogen storage in an Ag-CNTs electrode has been studied by XRD and Raman spectrum before and after hydrogenation. For purifying the CNTs, acidic and thermal methods have been employed. The presence of a clear RBM mode in the purified sample’s Raman spectrum at 238cm-1 shows that a significant fraction of the CNTs are SWCNTs with an average diameter of about 1.02 nm. The amount of stored hydrogen in the electrode is measured during the discharge leg after each cycle of charge/discharge process and the optimum value is about 200 mAh/g (after ten cycles). Because the hydrogen absorption in a pure silver electrode is very minute, therefore the enhancement in the discharge capacity is attributed to the CNTs
XRD spectrum of the hydrogenated electrode, shows two noticeable peaks at 2θ=33° and 2θ=53°, which indicates a new long range ordering process.
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