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  • Enhanced Stability of Li-RHC Embedded in an Adaptive TPX™ Polymer Scaffold.

Enhanced Stability of Li-RHC Embedded in an Adaptive TPX™ Polymer Scaffold.

Materials (Basel, Switzerland) (2020-02-27)
Thi Thu Le, Claudio Pistidda, Clarissa Abetz, Prokopios Georgopanos, Sebastiano Garroni, Giovanni Capurso, Chiara Milanese, Julián Puszkiel, Martin Dornheim, Volker Abetz, Thomas Klassen
ABSTRACT

In this work, the possibility of creating a polymer-based adaptive scaffold for improving the hydrogen storage properties of the system 2LiH+MgB2+7.5(3TiCl3·AlCl3) was studied. Because of its chemical stability toward the hydrogen storage material, poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) or in-short TPXTM was chosen as the candidate for the scaffolding structure. The composite system was obtained after ball milling of 2LiH+MgB2+7.5(3TiCl3·AlCl3) and a solution of TPXTM in cyclohexane. The investigations carried out over the span of ten hydrogenation/de-hydrogenation cycles indicate that the material containing TPXTM possesses a higher degree of hydrogen storage stability.

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Magnesium boride, powder, −100 mesh, ≥99% trace metals basis