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Effects of highly dispersed Ni nanoparticles on the hydrogen storage performance of MgH2

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MgH2 with a large hydrogen capacity is regarded as a promising hydrogen storage material. However, it still suffers from high thermal stability and sluggish kinetics. In this paper, highly dispersed nano-Ni has been successfully prepared by using the polyol reduction method with an average size of 2.14 nm, which significantly improves the de/rehydrogenation properties of MgH2. The MgH2—10wt% nano-Ni sample starts releasing H2 at 497 K, and roughly 6.2wt% H2 has been liberated at 583 K. The rehydrogenation kinetics of the sample are also greatly improved, and the adsorption capacity reaches 5.3wt% H2 in 1000 s at 482 K and under 3 MPa hydrogen pressure. Moreover, the activation energies of de/rehydrogenation of the MgH2—10wt% nano-Ni sample are reduced to (88 ± 2) and (87 ± 1) kJ·mol−1, respectively. In addition, the thermal stability of the MgH2—10wt% nano-Ni system is reduced by 5.5 kJ per mol H2 from that of pristine MgH2. This finding indicates that nano-Ni significantly improves both the thermodynamic and kinetic performances of the de/rehydrogenation of MgH2, serving as a bi-functional additive of both reagent and catalyst.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52071177), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi, China (No. 2020GXNSFAA297074), the Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Advanced Metallic Materials (No. BM2007204), and the Guangxi Key Laboratory of Information Materials (No. 211021-K).

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallic Materials, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China

    Nuo Xu, Zirui Yuan, Xinli Guo & Yao Zhang

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Baise University, Baise, 533000, China

    Zhihong Ma

  3. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Centre for Advanced Inorganic Function Composites, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, 211816, China

    Yunfeng Zhu

  4. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Information Materials, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, 541004, China

    Yongjin Zou

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Xu, N., Yuan, Z., Ma, Z. et al. Effects of highly dispersed Ni nanoparticles on the hydrogen storage performance of MgH2. Int J Miner Metall Mater 30, 54–62 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-022-2510-8

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