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Effect of melt spinning on gaseous hydrogen storage characteristics of nanocrystalline and amorphous Nd-added Mg2Ni-type alloys

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Nanocrystalline and amorphous Mg-Nd-Ni-Cu quaternary alloys with a composition of (Mg24Ni10Cu2)100-x Nd x (x=0, 5, 10, 15, 20) were prepared by melt spinning technology and their structures as well as gaseous hydrogen storage characteristics were investigated. The XRD, TEM and SEM linked with EDS detections reveal that the as-spun Nd-free alloy holds an entire nanocrystalline structure but a nanocrystalline and amorphous structure for the as-spun Nd-added alloy, implying that the addition of Nd facilitates the glass forming in the Mg2Ni-type alloy. Furthermore, the degree of amorphization of the as-spun Nd-added alloy and thermal stability of the amorphous structure clearly increase with the spinning rate rising. The melt spinning ameliorates the hydriding and dehydriding kinetics of the alloys dramatically. Specially, the rising of the spinning rate from 0 (the as-cast was defined as the spinning rate of 0 m/s) to 40 m/s brings on the hydrogen absorption saturation ratio (R a5 ) (a ratio of the hydrogen absorption quantity in 5 min to the saturated hydrogen absorption capacity) increasing from 36.9% to 91.5% and the hydrogen desorption ratio (R d10 ) (a ratio of the hydrogen desorption quantity in 10 min to the saturated hydrogen absorption capacity) rising from 16.4% to 47.7% for the (x=10) alloy, respectively.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Integrated Exploitation of Baiyun Obo Multi-Metal Resources, Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Baotou, 014010, China

    Yang-huan Zhang  (张羊换)

  2. Department of Functional Material Research, Central Iron and Steel Research Institute, Beijing, 100081, China

    Yang-huan Zhang  (张羊换), Ze-ming Yuan  (袁泽明), Tai Yang  (杨泰), Yan Qi  (祁焱), Shi-hai Guo  (郭世海) & Dong-liang Zhao  (赵栋梁)

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Zhang, Yh., Yuan, Zm., Yang, T. et al. Effect of melt spinning on gaseous hydrogen storage characteristics of nanocrystalline and amorphous Nd-added Mg2Ni-type alloys. J. Cent. South Univ. 23, 2754–2762 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-016-3337-0

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