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- Moser, D, et al.
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Structure and stability of high pressure synthesized Mg-TM hydrides (TM = Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb and Ta) as possible new hydrogen rich hydrides for hydrogen storage.
- 2009
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In: Journal of Materials Chemistry. ; 19:43, s. 8150-
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A series of hydrogen rich Mg6–7TMH14–16 (TM = Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb and Ta) hydrides have been synthesized at 600 °C in a high pressure anvil cell above 4 GPa. All have structures based on a fluorite type metal atom subcell lattice with a ≈ 4.8 Å. The TM atom arrangements are, however, more ordered and can best be described by a superstructure where the 4.8 Å FCC unit cell axis is doubled. The full metal atom structure corresponds to the Ca7Ge type structure. This superstructure was also observed from electron diffraction patterns. The hydrogen atoms were found from powder X-ray diffraction using synchrotron radiation to be located in the two possible tetrahedral sites. One coordinates three Mg atoms and one TM atom and another coordinates four Mg atoms. These types of new hydrogen rich hydrides based on immiscible metals were initially considered as metastable but have been observed to be reversible if not fully dehydrogenated. In this work, DFT calculations suggest a mechanism whereby this can be explained: with H more strongly bonded to the TM, it is in principle possible to stepwise dehydrogenate the hydride. The remaining hydrogen in the tetrahedral site coordinating the TM would then act to prevent the metals from separating, thus making the system partially reversible
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- Lee, Myeong H., et al.
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Crystal structure, electronic structure, and vibrational properties of MAlSiH (M=Ca,Sr,Ba) : Hydrogenation-induced semiconductors from the AlB2-type alloys MAlSi
- 2008
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In: Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. - 1098-0121 .- 1550-235X. ; 78:19, s. 195209-
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- Superconducting AlB2-type silicides CaAlSi, SrAlSi, and BaAlSi (MAlSi) absorb hydrogen and form semiconducting monohydrides where hydrogen is exclusively attached to Al. This induces a metal-nonmetal transition which is accompanied with only a minor rearrangement of the metal atoms. We report the synthesis and structure determination of CaAlSiH and BaAlSiH as well as a first-principles study of the electronic structure and vibrational property changes associated with the metal-nonmetal transition. We find that incorporation of H in MAlSi removes the partly occupied antibonding pi(*) band responsible for metallic behavior and turns it into an energetically low-lying Al-H bonding band. The fully occupied bonding pi band in MAlSi changes to a weakly dispersed band with Si p(z) (lone-pair) character in the hydrides, which becomes located below the Fermi level. The soft phonon mode in MAlSi pivotal for the superconducting properties stiffens considerably in the hydride. This mode is associated with the out-of-plane Al-Si vibration and is most affected by the formation of the Al-H bond. The mode of the Al-Si in-plane vibration, however, is unaffected, indicating that the Al-Si bond is equally strong in the metallic precursor and the semiconducting hydride. Al-H modes for MAlSiH are weakly dispersed. The frequencies of the stretching mode are around 1200 cm(-1) and virtually invariant to the M environment, indicating a covalent but weak Al-H interaction, which is interpreted as a dative bond from hydridic hydrogen to Al [Al <- H1-].
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- Björling, T., et al.
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SrAlSiH : A polyanionic semiconductor hydride
- 2005
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In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. - : Wiley. - 1433-7851 .- 1521-3773. ; 44:44, s. 7269-7273
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- (Chemical Equation Presented) Stable and semiconducting: Polyanionic hydrides represent a new class of main-group-metal hydrides with unforeseen hydrogen-coordination environments. The hydrogen atom in SrAlSiH is attached exclusively to Al and forms part of a layered [AlHSi]2- polyanion (see figure). This material is the first narrow bandgap semiconductor hydride and combines the high thermal stability of saline hydrides with the air and moisture stability of interstitial transition-metal hydrides.
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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
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In: Journal of Alloys and Compounds. - : Elsevier BV. - 0925-8388 .- 1873-4669. ; 417:1-2, s. 230-234
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- 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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