{"id":185,"date":"2011-12-28T11:54:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T10:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icmm.csic.es\/matfuelcells\/?page_id=185"},"modified":"2011-12-28T11:54:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T10:54:57","slug":"metal-hydrides","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/matfuelcells\/laboratory\/metal-hydrides\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal hydrides"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Arc furnace used for the preparation of intermetallic alloys.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Autoclave where the intermetallic alloys are hydrogenated, at pressure up to 70 bar H2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We follow three approaches for the preparation of metal hydrides. The former consists of the previous preparation of intermetallic alloys in an arc furnace.<\/p>\n

The mixture of\u00a0 metals, in powder, lumps of flakes form, are pelletized and put in a water-cooled copper crucible. After evacuation of air and under high-purity Ar flow, the arc from a W tip melts the metals, the reaction takes place for several seconds to minutes; then the sample is quenched to room temperature and ground to a fine powder. These intermetallic alloys, once formed, are hydrogenated under high H2<\/sub> pressure in an autoclave.<\/p>\n

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Piston-cylinder hydrostatic press whwre some complex hydrides are prepared from mixtures of simple hydrides contained in gold capsules<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Difference Fourier map from neutron diffraction data, showing the negative peaks (blue) corresponding to hydrogen positions. This map belong to H3OSbTeO6 pyrochlore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The second approach consist in the direct reaction of simple hydrides and\/or metals (for instance, 2 MgH2<\/sub>+Ni) under hydrostatic pressure conditions, in our piston-cylinder HP instrument.<\/p>\n

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Mixtures of the reactants are introduced in gold or platinum capsules, working in a globe box. After sealing the capsules, the reaction takes place in the piston-cylinder press, at moderate reaction temperatures (typically around 600-800\u00baC) and for generally short reaction times (typically between 20 min. and 1 hour). Finally, the products are quenched under pressure and the capsule open, again, in a globe box.<\/p>\n

When it is desirable to increase the amount of H in the hydride, the reactants are mixed up with NaBH4<\/sub>, which decomposes at the working temperature supplying an extra H2<\/sub> pressure (similar to the addition of KClO4<\/sub> in the case of the oxides). The high-pressure synthesis procedure offers the additional advantage of obtaining extremely well crystallized powders, which is important for the subsequent crystallographic characterization of the hydrides (most of the times by neutron diffraction)<\/p>\n

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Ball mill for the mechano-synthesis of complex hydrides <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The third approach is the mechanochemical reaction of mixtures of hydrides and metals in inert atmosphere in a ; this gives rise to poorly crystallized \u00a0powders which, in this case, present the advantage of\u00a0 the easiness \u00a0of hydrogenation-rehydrogenation.<\/p>\n

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The hydride samples are finally characterized by thermal analysis (TG and DSC techniques). A DSC1 Metteler system, able to work under 70 bar H2<\/sub>, \u00a0has been recently set up in our Lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We follow three approaches for the preparation of metal hydrides. The former consists of the previous preparation of intermetallic alloys in an arc furnace. The mixture of\u00a0 metals, in powder, lumps of flakes form, are pelletized and put in a water-cooled copper crucible. After evacuation of air and under high-purity Ar flow, the arc from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"parent":114,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-185","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/matfuelcells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/matfuelcells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/matfuelcells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/matfuelcells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/matfuelcells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/matfuelcells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/matfuelcells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/matfuelcells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}