Titanium as a Potential Addition for High-Capacity Hydrogen Storage Medium

Table 4

Comparison of SWNT and C₆H₆ supports for H₂ adsorption on Ti.

Support	C6H6	SWNT [10]
preferred configuration	TiH2 + 3H2	Ti + 4H2
adsorption energy per H2 molecule	0.23 eV	0.54 eV
first dissociative H2 addition energy	0.37 eV	0.83 eV
Ti + 4H2: H–H distance	0.82 Å	0.84 Å