title: A first-principles study of lithium-decorated hybrid boron nitride and graphene domains for hydrogen storage.
abstract: First-principles calculations are performed to investigate the adsorption of hydrogen onto Li-decorated hybrid boron nitride and graphene domains of (BN)(x)C(1-x) complexes with x = 1, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 0, and B0.125C0.875. The most stable adsorption sites for the nth hydrogen molecule in the lithium-decorated (BN)(x)C(1-x) complexes are systematically discussed. The most stable adsorption sites were affected by the charge localization, and the hydrogen molecules were favorably located above the C-C bonds beside the Li atom. The results show that the nitrogen atoms in the substrate planes could increase the hybridization between the 2p orbitals of Li and the orbitals of H2. The results revealed that the (BN)(x)C(1-x) complexes not only have good thermal stability but they also exhibit a high hydrogen storage of 8.7% because of their dehydrogenation ability.
authors.affiliation: College of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Zi-Yu
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: College of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Xiaohong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Shao
authors.affiliation: Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Da
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Li-Min
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Departments of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA.
authors.forename: J Karl
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Johnson