Mechanism of hydrogen residue in metal hydrides formed from high-entropy alloys by inelastic neutron spectroscopy

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High-entropy alloys (HEAs) typically contain four or more principle elements in equimolar amounts. We have recently discovered the first bcc HEA-based hydride with reversible hydrogen storage capacity at room-temperature, TiVCrNbH8. In addition, this material excels at many of the traditional showstoppers for applied hydrogen storage in intermetallic hydrides, i.e. degradation after repeated hydrogen absorption/desorption cycling, surface passivation and slow hydrogen sorption kinetics. This material is therefore promising as a future hydrogen storage material. However, the reversible capacity is 1.96 wt.% H2 while the full capacity in TiVCrNbH8 is 3.14 wt.% H2. This means that there are certain interstitial sites within the metal matrix where the H-atoms are bound more tightly than others. If these sites can be destabilized, the full hydrogen storage capacity of would become accessible.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1920331-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/105601131
Provenance
Creator Dr Øystein Slagtern Fjellvåg; Professor Bjorn Hauback; Dr Jeff Armstrong; Mr Magnus Moe Nygård
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-10-05T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-10-21T10:15:49Z