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H d V F a A R R 2 A A K H C C L S 1 d H f o g e d a t l t o n t s e t t o 0 dApplied Surface Science 258 (2012) 2498– 2509 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Applied Surface Science jou rn al h om epa g e: www.elsev ier .com/ locate /apsusc ydrogen storage in different carbon materials: Influence of the porosity evelopment by chemical activation icente Jiménez ?, Ana Ramírez-Lucas, Paula Sánchez, José Luís Valverde, Amaya Romero acultad de Ciencias Químicas/Escuela Técnica Agrícola, Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain r t i c l e i n f o rticle history: eceived 10 July 2011 eceived in revised form 8 September 2011 ccepted 16 October 2011 vailable online 21 October 2011 a b s t r a c t The hydrogen adsorption capacity of different types of carbon nanofibers (platelet, fishbone and rib- bon) and amorphous carbon have been measured as a function of pressure and temperature. The results showed that the more graphitic carbon materials adsorbed less hydrogen than more amorphous materi- als. After a chemical activation process, the hydrogen storage capacities of the carbon materials increased markedly in comparison with the non-activated ones. BET surface area of amorphous carbon increased by a factor of 3.5 and the ultramicropore volume dou-eywords: ydrogen storage arbon nanofibers hemical activation inear scaling bled, thus increasing the hydrogen adsorption by a factor of 2. However, BET surface area in platelet CNFs increased by a factor of 3 and the ultramicropore volume by a factor of 6, thus increasing the hydrogen storage by a factor of 4.5. The dependency of hydrogen storage capacity of carbon materials on the BET surface area was evaluated using both a condensation model and experimental results. Comparison of data sugge