Recent Development Issues in Nanotechnology for Gas Storage

Nanomaterials and their derived sub-groups are emerging into the advanced materials field due to their high free porous volume, structural regularity, robustness, hydrothermal stability, and functional variety. They present high gas uptake capacities and presence of stabilized active functions in the framework. A significant technical challenge has been recognized as the development of a viable method to efficiently trap hydrogen, methane and carbon dioxide gas molecules in a confined space for various applications.


Introduction
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During the past decade, nano-materials have emerged as the new building blocks to construct light energy harvesting assemblies. Organic and inorganic hybrid structures that exhibit improved selectivity and efficiency toward catalytic processes have been designed. Size dependent properties such as size quantization effects in semiconductor nanoparticles and quantized charging effects in metal nanoparticles provide the basis for developing new and effective systems [1,2] (Figure 1). The development of microporous organic polymers (MOPs) with pore size less than 2nm has attracted a great deal of attention [3]. These microporous materials possessing high surface area, low skeleton density, and chemical tunability have opened the door to many potential applications in the area of heterogeneous catalysis [4] (Figure 2).
Light harvesting [5], gas separation and storage [6]. For MOPs, the permanent porosity derives from backbone rigidity and spaceinefficient packing of the polymer chains [7]. In this regard, many rigid and contorted monomers such as spirocyclic and tetrahedral compounds have been investigated as successful building blocks in the preparation of soluble polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) [8] and other insoluble MOPs [9]. The particular advantage of MOPs is to introduce a wide range of useful chemical functionalities into the pores [10]. Furthermore, the embedding of transition metal sites into MOPs could open up second-generation porous materials with useful combined chemical and physical properties [10] and offers potential as heterogeneous catalysts for various organic reactions such as general hydrogenations [11], oxidation of thiols [12], Suzukie Miyaura couplings [13] and so forth [14]. Metal catalytic moieties into functional MOPs has at least two advantages: i) the homogeneous distribution of active metal nanoparticles (NPs) is enabled by the strong interaction with the functional porous supports, which has been believed to give effective catalytic activity and selectivity [15]; ii) the metal

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Open Access leaching could be greatly suppressed in the process of catalyst separation for recycling [16]. Therefore it is highly desirable to investigate methods to incorporate a variety of functionalities into MOPs. Hydrogen gas is a clean energy source, which can replace fossil fuels while the need for this clean and sustainable energy has been greater [17]. One hopeful way of hydrogen generation increasing is the use of transition metal (0) nanoclusters as catalysts because a large percentage of atoms lie on the surface of activity nanoclusters [18]. Co, Cu, Ni and Fe were chosen as they are among the reactive transition metals toward hydrolysis of boron-based hydrides such as NaBH 4 . The cheaper transition metal catalysts generally exhibit only moderate catalytic activity. A variety of preparative methods are available for obtaining polymer-stabilized metal nanoclusters [19]. The most widely used synthetic method involves reduction of the metal ion in zero valent state within the polymer medium. Followed by coalescence of the polymer onto the formed nanoclusters a strong stabilizer such as polymer is needed to prevent agglomeration of metal (0) nanoclusters in aqueous solution at high pH medium, acting as a catalyst in the hydrolysis of sodium borohydride [20]. Next attempt was done by investigation of PVP role on size, morphology and catalytic activity of crystalized Co-La-Zr-B nano powder [21] (Figure 3).

Hydrogen Storage in Nanomaterials
Investigate role of oleic acid as stabilizing agent on size and morphology of quaternary nano catalyst [22]. Since their discovery [23,24] carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have continued to attract a huge interest worldwide because of their peculiar physical and chemical properties [25]. In particular, the adsorption behavior of a singlewall carbon nanotube (SWNT), be it chemi-or physisorption, substantially differs from that of graphite or fullerenes, and critically depends on whether the inner or outer surface is exposed and on the tube chirality and diameter. Understanding its characteristics and being able to predict relevant adsorption configurations are important for complementing ongoing experimental efforts in developing covalent sidewall functionalization [26], applications of CNTs as gas sensors [27] and hydrogen storage materials [28].   metal ions coordinating ability, ion-exchange as well as reducing properties, and exhibit significant CO 2 uptakes at atmospheric pressure even though their surface areas are moderate [30]. For example, a facile route involving phenolic resin inspired chemistry to hyper-cross-linked MOPs with hydroxyl functional groups has been demonstrated by Kanatzidis [30]. Those polymeric frameworks based on the polymerization of phloroglucinol and 1,5-dihydroxynaphthalene with several benzaldehydes under solvothermal conditions capture a maximum of 18 wt% CO 2 at 273K and 1 bar, and deposit Ag NPs in situ inside the pores.

Carbon Dioxide Storage in Nanomaterials
Catechol and its derivatives have been widely used as ligands or chelating agents in coordination chemistry [31] (Figure 5). As with hydrogen, methane is also considered a clean energy gas. Compared to petroleum oil, it can provide much more energy because of its higher hydrogen-to-carbon ratio and has much lower carbon emission. In addition, deposits of methanecontaining natural gas are more widespread globally than those of petroleum oil, and its refinement (purification) to an energy fuel is much simpler than that of crude petroleum oil to gasoline or diesel fuels. Methane is also produced by decomposition of organic waste and by bacteria in the guts of ruminants and termites. In terms of near-term practical utilization and innovations necessary for commercialization, methane appears to be a more promising alternative for mobile applications [32]. As an exceptional member of alkaline-earth oxides, beryllium oxide (BeO) can be arisen as an important covalent component in the initial ionic Be-O bond [33].