Hydrogen transport through Pd and metal-hydrides has been usually investigated by using potentiostatic current transient technique (chronoamperometry), on the basis of the diffusion-controlled model. This assumes that hydrogen diffusion in the electrode is very slow, while other reactions including interfacial charge transfer and hydrogen transfer are too fast to influence hydrogen transport, a...

A safe and efficient method for storing hydrogen is solid state storage through a chemical reaction in metal hydrides. A good amount of research has been conducted on hydrogenation properties of metal hydrides and possible methods to improve them. Background research shows that heat transfer is one of the reaction rate controlling parameters in a metal hydride hydrogen storage system. Consideri...

The hydrogenation process of the antiferromagnetic compounds CePdIn and CePdSn has been studied. Investigation of the new hydrides CePdInH and CePdSnH by X-ray powder diffraction shows that they adopt the same crystal symmetry as the original intermetallic but the unit cell volume increases during the hydrogenation. Magnetization, electrical resistivity, thermoelectric power and Sn Mössbauer sp...

Firstly the method of joint synthesis of carbon molecules and their hydrides is developed. The stage of high-temperature sublimation of carbon in a new method of generation of carbon molecules is completely excluded. By mass spectrometric method the condensation products of new method of pyrolysis (NMP) benzene are studied. Firstly clusters (C3-C17), typical for carbon vapour, in substances obt...

The N-heterocyclic olefin, IPr=CH(2) (IPr = [(HCNDipp)(2)C], Dipp = 2,6-(i)Pr(2)C(6)H(3)) has been demonstrated to be of sufficient Lewis basicity to stabilize main group hydrides in unusually low oxidation states.

The Herschel-guaranteed time key programme PRobing InterStellar Molecules with Absorption line Studies (PRISMAS)(1) is providing a survey of the interstellar hydrides containing the elements C, O, N, F and Cl. As the building blocks of interstellar molecules, hydrides provide key information on their formation pathways. They can also be used as tracers of important physical and chemical propert...