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Effect of the variation in the composition on the adsorption and desorption performance for the Zr(V x Ni 1– x ) 2+ α (0 ≤ x ≤ 1; 0 ≤ α ≤ 1) family of alloys
Author(s) -
Huang R. Z.,
Wang Y. M.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
physica status solidi (a)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.532
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1862-6319
pISSN - 1862-6300
DOI - 10.1002/pssa.200723224
Subject(s) - laves phase , desorption , hydrogen storage , hydrogen , hydride , alloy , materials science , phase (matter) , composition (language) , substitution (logic) , crystallography , solid solution , analytical chemistry (journal) , adsorption , chemistry , intermetallic , metallurgy , linguistics , philosophy , organic chemistry , computer science , programming language , chromatography
We have performed first‐principles calculations of cubic C15‐type Laves phase Zr(V x Ni 1– x ) 2+ α (0 ≤ x ≤ 1; 0 ≤ α ≤ 1) alloys to understand their hydrogen storage properties. Our calculations have shown that hydrogen atoms tend to occupy 2A2B sites for these alloys. It has been found that hydrogen desorption performance for these alloys can be improved by the partial substitution of Ni for V and the partial substitution of V for Zr, which agrees with experimental results. The effect of the variation in the compositions of these alloys on the hydride formation energy is revealed. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)