3D打印制备PVA基储氢复合气凝胶及性能研究

3D-Printed PVA-Based Composite Aerogels: Fabrication and Hydrogen Storage Performance

  • 摘要: 突破传统气凝胶成型尺度、结构不可控的瓶颈,本文采用直写式3D打印技术(Direct Ink Writing, DIW),成功制备出具有疏松多级孔结构的PVA/硅基纳米片(Silicon-based nanosheets,SNS)/石墨烯(Graphene)复合气凝胶。针对直写成型工艺要求,设计并优化了高固含量、高粘性复合打印油墨体系,结果表明,当Graphene、SNS片添加量分别为60 mg和80 mg时,PSG油墨呈现最优剪切变稀流变特性与打印成型精度。SNS在石墨烯片层之间实现均匀分布,有效分散石墨烯片层,起到良好的支撑作用,提高了比表面积和微孔的数量。通过水洗溶除PVA造孔剂,在气凝胶内部原位构筑出富含微孔、介孔的连续贯通孔道网络,层次化多孔结构大幅暴露SNS与Graphene的储氢活性位点,有效拓宽离子传输通道,显著加快氢离子迁移速率,使材料储氢动力学性能得到极大提升,氢扩散系数最高可达7.53×10−6 cm2/s。密度泛函理论(DFT)计算结果显示,该复合材料体系储氢吸附能较单组份吸附能更强,体系兼具浅势阱与超平滑势能面,保持优异扩散动力学。实验证明,3D打印多级疏松结构、水洗PVA造孔改性以及SNS/Graphene协同复合,可显著优化碳基气凝胶的孔道结构与储氢性能。该赋予PSG复合碳气凝胶优异的储氢性能,为高性能、结构可控的新型多孔储氢材料的设计与可控制备提供了高效的绿色制备策略与理论支撑。

     

    Abstract: To overcome the long-standing bottlenecks of conventional aerogels—limited formability and uncontrollable pore architecture—we report the successful fabrication of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)/silicon-based nanosheets (SNS)/graphene composite aerogels with a hierarchically porous, loose structure via direct ink writing (DIW) 3D printing technology. Guided by the process requirements of direct-write forming, we designed and optimized a composite printing ink system with high solid content and high viscosity. The results demonstrate that the PSG ink achieves optimal shear-thinning rheological behavior and printing fidelity when the loadings of graphene and SNS are 60 mg and 80 mg, respectively. The SNS are uniformly intercalated between graphene nanosheets, effectively exfoliating the graphene layers and serving as robust structural spacers, which increases the specific surface area and the abundance of micropores. Subsequent removal of the PVA pore-forming agent via water leaching in situ generates a continuous, interconnected pore network enriched with micropores and mesopores throughout the aerogel. This hierarchical porous structure extensively exposes the hydrogen storage active sites of both SNS and graphene, effectively widens ion transport pathways, and markedly accelerates hydrogen ion migration kinetics. As a result, the hydrogen storage dynamic performance of the material is greatly enhanced, with a maximum hydrogen diffusion coefficient reaching 7.53×10−6 cm2 s−1. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the composite system exhibits stronger hydrogen adsorption energies compared to its single-component counterparts. The system features both shallow potential wells and an ultrasmooth potential energy surface, thereby preserving exceptional diffusion kinetics. Experimental evidence confirms that the integration of 3D-printed hierarchical loose structure, water-leaching PVA pore engineering, and the synergistic coupling between SNS and graphene substantially optimizes the pore structure and hydrogen storage performance of carbon-based aerogels. This work endows PSG composite carbon aerogels with outstanding hydrogen storage performance, providing an efficient green fabrication strategy and theoretical foundation for the rational design and controllable synthesis of high-performance, structure-tunable porous hydrogen storage materials.

     

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