Hydrogen mobility in the lightest reversible metal hydride, LiBeH3
Abstract
Lithium-beryllium metal hydrides, which are structurally related to their parent compound, BeH2, offer the highest hydrogen storage capacity by weight among the metal hydrides (15.93 wt. % of hydrogen for LiBeH3). Challenging synthesis protocols have precluded conclusive determination of their crystallographic structure to date, but here we analyze directly the hydrogen hopping mechanisms in BeH2 and LiBeH3 using quasielastic neutron scattering, which is especially sensitive to single-particle dynamics of hydrogen. We find that, unlike its parent compound BeH2, lithium-beryllium hydride LiBeH3 exhibits a sharp increase in hydrogen mobility above 265 K, so dramatic that it can be viewed as melting of hydrogen sublattice. We perform comparative analysis of hydrogen jump mechanisms observed in BeH2 and LiBeH3 over a broad temperature range. As microscopic diffusivity of hydrogen is directly related to its macroscopic kinetics, a transition in LiBeH3 so close to ambient temperature may offer a straightforward and effective mechanism to influence hydrogen uptake and release in this very lightweight hydrogen storage compound.
- Authors:
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Neutron Scattering Division
- Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States). Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1426583
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Scientific Reports
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; Hydrogen storage
Citation Formats
Mamontov, Eugene, Kolesnikov, Alexander I., Sampath, Sujatha, and Yarger, Jeffery L. Hydrogen mobility in the lightest reversible metal hydride, LiBeH3. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-16504-0.
Mamontov, Eugene, Kolesnikov, Alexander I., Sampath, Sujatha, & Yarger, Jeffery L. Hydrogen mobility in the lightest reversible metal hydride, LiBeH3. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-16504-0
Mamontov, Eugene, Kolesnikov, Alexander I., Sampath, Sujatha, and Yarger, Jeffery L. Fri .
"Hydrogen mobility in the lightest reversible metal hydride, LiBeH3". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-16504-0. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1426583.
@article{osti_1426583,
title = {Hydrogen mobility in the lightest reversible metal hydride, LiBeH3},
author = {Mamontov, Eugene and Kolesnikov, Alexander I. and Sampath, Sujatha and Yarger, Jeffery L.},
abstractNote = {Lithium-beryllium metal hydrides, which are structurally related to their parent compound, BeH2, offer the highest hydrogen storage capacity by weight among the metal hydrides (15.93 wt. % of hydrogen for LiBeH3). Challenging synthesis protocols have precluded conclusive determination of their crystallographic structure to date, but here we analyze directly the hydrogen hopping mechanisms in BeH2 and LiBeH3 using quasielastic neutron scattering, which is especially sensitive to single-particle dynamics of hydrogen. We find that, unlike its parent compound BeH2, lithium-beryllium hydride LiBeH3 exhibits a sharp increase in hydrogen mobility above 265 K, so dramatic that it can be viewed as melting of hydrogen sublattice. We perform comparative analysis of hydrogen jump mechanisms observed in BeH2 and LiBeH3 over a broad temperature range. As microscopic diffusivity of hydrogen is directly related to its macroscopic kinetics, a transition in LiBeH3 so close to ambient temperature may offer a straightforward and effective mechanism to influence hydrogen uptake and release in this very lightweight hydrogen storage compound.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri Nov 24 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Fri Nov 24 00:00:00 EST 2017}
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