Metal-hydrides offer a potentially competitive method for compressing hydrogen, particularly where waste heat is available. Metal hydrides are metal alloys or intermetallic compounds that react reversibly with H2. They readily absorb low-pressure H2 at low temperature, and then release higher pressure when the temperature raised. The high released above expected from standard press-temperature ...

Understanding an interrelation between the structure, chemical composition and hydrogenation properties of intermetallic hydrides is crucial for improvement their hydrogen storage performance. Ability to form tune thermodynamics kinetics interaction with related composition. Some features metal–hydrogen interactions remain however poorly studied, including chemistry Sc-containing hydrides. ZrNi...

Rechargeable proton-exchange membrane batteries that employ organic chemical hydrides as hydrogen-storage media have the potential to serve as next-generation power sources; however, significant challenges remain regarding the improvement of the reversible hydrogen-storage capacity. Here, we address this challenge through the use of metal-ion redox couples as energy carriers for battery operati...

We demonstrate a method to improve the promising hydrogen storage capabilities of ammonia borane by making composites with alkaline-earth metal hydrides using ball-milling technique. The ball-milling for the mixtures of alkaline-earth metal hydride (MgH2 or CaH2) and ammonia borane (AB) yields a destabilization compared with the ingredient of the mixture, showing the hydrogen capacity of 8.7 an...

We have obtained infrared (1—2.5µm) spectroscopy for 42 halo and disk dwarfs with spectral type M1 to M6.5. These data are compared to synthetic spectra generated by the latest model atmospheres of Allard & Hauschildt. Photospheric parameters metallicity, effective temperature and radius are determined for the sample. We find good agreement between observation and theory except for known proble...

Though numerous catalysts for the dehydrogenation of ammonia borane (AB) are known, those that release >2 equiv of H2 are uncommon. Herein, we report the synthesis of Mo complexes supported by a para-terphenyl diphosphine ligand, 1, displaying metal-arene interactions. Both a Mo(0) N2 complex, 5, and a Mo(II) bis(acetonitrile) complex, 4, exhibit high levels of AB dehydrogenation, releasing ove...

U2T2X compounds (Mo2FeB2 structure type, T transition metal, X p-element), exhibiting wide range of magnetic properties from weak paramagnetism to 5f-antiferromagnetism, have been checked for hydrogen absorbtion properties. Besides U2Co2Sn hydrides, which have already been reported, U2Ni2SnH1.8, U2Ni2InH1.9, U2Co2InH1.9, and U2Fe2SnH1.9, have been synthesized. Hydrogenation leads to the enhance...

Tricarbonyl hydride derivatives of cyclopentadienyl-chromium, -molybdenum and -tungsten compounds covalently linked to a macroreticular polystyrene support are obtained by treatment of polystyrene-attached cyclopentadienyl anions with the respective metal hexacarbonyl and subsequent acidification. In contrast to the ease with which unsupported cyclopentaruenyl·chromium and -molybdenum tricarbon...

Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (POSS) cages are investigated in terms of their potential to enclose small metal hydrides, with the objective of defining conditions that maximize the number of encapsulated hydrogen atoms. Systems of the form MH2n@Tm, where n = 1–3, m = 8, 10, and M comprises metal atom species of the groups IV, VI, VIII, X, and XII, are studied by methods of ab initio and ...