Reassessed Ability of Carbon-Based Physisorbing Materials to Keep Pace with Evolving Practical Targets for Hydrogen Storage

This study provides a comprehensive overview of research and advancements on carbon materials with regard to practical targets for hydrogen storage in terms of gravimetric and volumetric capacities. For the sake of clarity, only the most relevant references on hydrogen storage by adsorption are presented, although the study was conducted in the same exhaustive manner as the one initially carried out by Anne C. Dillon and Michael J. Heben in 2001 with a particular emphasis on emerging technologies and potential applications in various sectors. This study also focuses on the importance of carbon-based materials with high specific surface areas and porous structures optimised to maximise adsorption—including at high pressure—while primarily limiting references herein to experimentally validated results. It therefore offers insights into the porous materials, as well as the methodologies—including a fully comprehensive and so-far proven highly transferable intermolecular hydrogen model combining van der Waals’s and Coulomb’s forces—used to improve hydrogen solid storage efficiency.