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- Lelis, Martynas, et al.
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A mechanically switchable metal-insulator transition in Mg2NiH4 discovers a strain sensitive, nanoscale modulated resistivity connected to a stacking fault
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Alloys and Compounds. - : Elsevier BV. - 0925-8388 .- 1873-4669. ; 496:02-jan, s. 81-86
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The band gap in semiconducting Mg2NiH4 was found to be dependent on subtle structural differences. This was discovered when investigating if thin film samples of Mg2NiH4 could be used in a switchable mirror or window device by utilizing a high to low temperature transition at about 510K. In powder samples; this transition between an FCC high temperature phase, with dynamically disordered NiH4-complexes, and a monoclinic distorted low temperature phase, with ordered Mg2NiH4-complexes, has been demonstrated in a mechanical reversible conductor-insulator transition (Blomqvist and Noreus (2002) [7]). Black monoclinic Mg2NiH4 powders were found to have a band gap of 1.1 eV. Pressed tablets of black monoclinic Mg2NiH4 powders are conductive, probably from doping by impurities or non-stoichiometry. Thin film Mg2NiH4 samples were produced by reacting hydrogen with magnetron sputtered Mg2Ni films on quartz glass or CaF2 substrates. The Mg2NiH4 films on the other hand were orange, transparent with a band gap of 2.2 eV and a cubic unit cell parameter almost identical to the disorder HT phase but with lower symmetry. If black Mg2NiH4 powder is heated above the phase transition at 510K and subsequently cooled down, the conductivity is lost and the powder turns brown. After this heat treatment TEM pictures revealed a multiple stacking fault having a local pseudo-cubic arrangement separating regions of monoclinic symmetry. The loss of conductivity and colour change is attributed to a higher band gap in the strained areas. The structure on each side of the stacking fault is related by a mirror plane as a consequence of the possibility for the NiH4-complexes to order with different orientations. This leads to a mismatch in the long range ordering and strain is probably creating the stacking faults. Strain is important for forming the cubic modification. A severely strained film was revealed with optical microscopy in reflected light, indicating that strain prevents it from relaxing back into the monoclinic structure. This was supported by multiple twinned red translucent Mg2NiH4 crystals grown with cubic symmetry at elevated temperatures in a LiH flux. When cooled to ambient conditions, the ""crystals"" had the same cubic symmetry as the films, probably held together by their neighbours. When they were ground to a fine powder to prepare TEM samples, they relaxed and reverted back to the conventional monoclinic unit cell. This interesting nanoscale modulated resistance could possibly be developed into novel memory devices if properly controllable.
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- Mikhaylushkin, Arkady S, et al.
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High-pressure structural behavior of large-void CoSn-type intermetallics: Experiments and first-principles calculations
- 2008
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Ingår i: Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. - : Institutionen för fysik, kemi och biologi. - 1098-0121 .- 1550-235X. ; 77:1, s. 014102-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The high-pressure structural behavior of the binary intermetallic compounds CoSn, FeSn, and NiIn with the peculiar void containing CoSn (B35)-type structure has been studied by means of room-temperature diamond anvil cell and high-temperature multianvil experiments, as well as by first-principles calculations. All three compounds remain structurally stable at pressures up to at least 25 GPa, whereas first-principles calculations predict high-pressure structural changes below 20 GPa. A plausible explanation for the discrepancy is that at room temperature, a sizable activation barrier inhibits kinetically the transformation into more close-packed polymorphs. It is supported by our experiments at temperatures around 1000 °C and a pressure of 10 GPa. At these conditions, NiIn transforms into the temperature-quenchable stoichiometric CsCl-type high-pressure phase, which has been predicted in our first-principles calculations. However, CoSn and FeSn decompose into a mixture of compounds richer and poorer in tin, respectively. Nevertheless, it might be possible that lower temperatures and higher pressures may afford theoretically predicted polymorphs. In particular, a phase transformation to the FeSi-type structure predicted for CoSn is of interest as materials with the FeSi-type structure are known for unusual thermal and transport properties.
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- Pasquini, Luca, et al.
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Magnesium- and intermetallic alloys-based hydrides for energy storage : modelling, synthesis and properties
- 2022
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Ingår i: Progress in Energy. - : Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP). - 2516-1083. ; 4:3
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Hydrides based on magnesium and intermetallic compounds provide a viable solution to the challenge of energy storage from renewable sources, thanks to their ability to absorb and desorb hydrogen in a reversible way with a proper tuning of pressure and temperature conditions. Therefore, they are expected to play an important role in the clean energy transition and in the deployment of hydrogen as an efficient energy vector. This review, by experts of Task 40 'Energy Storage and Conversion based on Hydrogen' of the Hydrogen Technology Collaboration Programme of the International Energy Agency, reports on the latest activities of the working group 'Magnesium- and Intermetallic alloys-based Hydrides for Energy Storage'. The following topics are covered by the review: multiscale modelling of hydrides and hydrogen sorption mechanisms; synthesis and processing techniques; catalysts for hydrogen sorption in Mg; Mg-based nanostructures and new compounds; hydrides based on intermetallic TiFe alloys, high entropy alloys, Laves phases, and Pd-containing alloys. Finally, an outlook is presented on current worldwide investments and future research directions for hydrogen-based energy storage.
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- Sato, Toyoto, 1978-
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Novel Interstitial Mg–TM (TM = Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb and Ta) Hydrides with an FCC Structure and CaNiH3 with a Perovskite Structure
- 2006
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis is focused on structural investigations of novel interstitial ternary alkaline-earth–transition metal hydrides formed by immiscible metals that are held together by the presence of hydrogen atoms. The contents are divided in two parts: Metastable Mg-based hydrides, in which transition-metal additives improve hydrogen storage properties; and a new Ca–Ni hydride, CaNiH3, with a perovskite structure, in which hydrogen enables a Ca:Ni =1:1 ratio although no such alloy composition exists.New ternary Mg-based hydride with an additive of either Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb or Ta were synthesized in a high-pressure anvil cell at 4–8 GPa and 600 ºC. All hydrides had an FCC metal atom structure with an axis of about 4.8 Å. This corresponds to an assumed high-pressure MgH2 phase that is stable at a pressure above 3.6 GPa (P. Vajeeston, P. Ravindran, A. Kjekshus, H. Fjellvåg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 (2002) 175506). Ordering of the metal atoms in the lattice leads to a doubling of the FCC unit cell all axis, and the metal atom structure of the hydrides (excluding Zr doped hydride) can be described by the Ca7Ge-type structure. Hydrogen atom arrangements at two tetrahedral sites were found from a powder X-ray diffraction pattern obtained with synchrotron radiation. One of the tetrahedral sites coordinates one TM atom and three Mg atoms, and the other coordinates four Mg atoms.CaNiH3 crystallizes with a cubic unit cell: a = 3.544(1) Å, V = 44.51(4) Å3 and Z = 1 in space group Pm-3m (No. 221). The hydrogen positions were determined from CaNiD3, using powder neutron diffraction, and the hydride was of an ideal perovskite ABH3 type. It was stabilized by a polyanionic framework of [NiH3]2- counterbalanced by Ca2+ cations. Total-energy calculations of the electronic structure showed that the hydride was a metallic conductor due to a half-filled Ni-H antibonding eg band.
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- Sato, Toyoto, et al.
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Structural investigations of two new ternary magnesium–niobium hydrides, Mg6.5NbH~14 and MgNb2H~4
- 2006
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Ingår i: Journal of Alloys and Compounds. - : Elsevier BV. - 0925-8388 .- 1873-4669. ; 417:1-2, s. 230-234
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Two new magnesium–niobium hydrides, Mg6.5NbH14 with a face centred cubic unit cell a = 9.548(1) Å (space group (No. 225), Z = 4, V = 870.49 Å3) and MgNb2H4 with a C-centred monoclinic unit cell a = 5.685 (4) Å, b = 3.2914(6) Å, c = 7.924(2) Å and β = 103.82(3)° (space group C2/m (No. 12), Z = 2, V = 143.98 Å3), were synthesized by reacting MgH2 and Nb in a high-pressure anvil cell at 8 GPa and 600 °C. The structures of the new hydrides were refined from synchrotron radiation data. Mg6.5NbH14 has a structure related to Mg7TiH16 (a = 9.532(2) Å space group (No. 225)) (D. Kyoi, T. Sato, E. Rönnebro, N. Kitamura, A. Ueda, M. Ito, S. Katsuyama, S. Hara, D. Noréus, T. Sakai, J. Alloys Compd. 372 (2004) 213). Where the metal atom structure is of the Ca7Ge type. Mg6.5NbH14, however, has some vacancies on one of the magnesium sites similar to the recently discovered Mg6VH14 (D. Kyoi, T. Sato, E. Rönnebro, Y. Tsuji, N. Kitamura, A. Ueda, M. Ito, S. Katsuyama, S. Hara, D. Noréus, T. Sakai, J. Alloys Compd. 375 (2004) 253). The metal atoms in MgNb2H4 have the AuTe2 type structure.
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- Wågberg, Thomas, et al.
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Selective synthesis of the C3v-isomer of C60H18
- 2005
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Ingår i: Organic Letters. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 1523-7060 .- 1523-7052. ; 7:25, s. 5557-60
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- C60H18 has been produced by hydrogenation of C-60 at 100 bar H-2 pressure and 673 K for 10 h. We have investigated the crude material without any purification by use of H-1 NMR, C-13 NMR, and IR spectroscopy and Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. We show that the crude material consists of 95% of the C-3v isomer of C60H18.
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