Sodium-based complex hydrides have recently gained interest as electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries due to their light weight and high electrochemical stability. Although room temperature conductivities are not sufficiently battery application, nanocomposite formation with metal oxides has emerged a promising approach enhance the ionic conductivity of hydrides. This enhancement is general...

Hydrides have been used since a long time for solid-state hydrogen storage and electrochemical nickel-metal hydride batteries. Besides these applications, growing attention has devoted to their development as anode materials, well solid electrolytes Li-ion other ion Herein, we review summarize the recent advances of hydrides negative electrodes Ni-MH A-ion batteries (A = Li, Na), electrolyte al...

Self-consistent, general potential, electronic structure calculations have been performed for the Laves phase compound YMn2 and its hydrides YMn2Hx (x = 0.5 and 1.0). The parent material, YMn2, is found to be an itinerant antiferromagnet with a magnetic moment of 2.6μB per Mn atom whereas for the hydrides an additional ferrimagnetic component appears. This is in good agreement with experiment. ...