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Title: Reversible hydrogen storage materials

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1040882

In accordance with the present disclosure, a process for synthesis of a complex hydride material for hydrogen storage is provided. The process includes mixing a borohydride with at least one additive agent and at least one catalyst and heating the mixture at a temperature of less than about 600.degree. C. and a pressure of H.sub.2 gas to form a complex hydride material. The complex hydride material comprises MAl.sub.xB.sub.yH.sub.z, wherein M is an alkali metal or group IIA metal, Al is the element aluminum, x is any number from 0 to 1, B is the element boron, y is a number from 0 to 13, and z is a number from 4 to 57 with the additive agent and catalyst still being present. The complex hydride material is capable of cyclic dehydrogenation and rehydrogenation and has a hydrogen capacity of at least about 4 weight percent.

Research Organization:
University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
FC36-04GO14232
Assignee:
University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC)
Patent Number(s):
8,153,554
Application Number:
11/940,651
OSTI ID:
1040882
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (1)

Ti-doped alkali metal aluminium hydrides as potential novel reversible hydrogen storage materials journal May 1997

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