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Unusual oxidation behavior of light metal hydride by tetrahydrofuran solvent molecules confined in ordered mesoporous carbon

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Confining light metal hydrides in micro- or mesoporous scaffolds is considered to be a promising way to overcome the existing challenges for these materials, e.g. their application in hydrogen storage. Different techniques exist which allow us to homogeneously fill pores of a host matrix with the respective hydride, thus yielding well defined composite materials. For this report, the ordered mesoporous carbon CMK-3 was taken as a support for LiAlH4 realized by a solution impregnation method to improve the hydrogen desorption behavior of LiAlH4 by nanoconfinement effects. It is shown that upon heating, LiAlH4 is unusually oxidized by coordinated tetrahydrofuran solvent molecules. The important result of the herein described work is the finding of a final composite containing nanoscale aluminum oxide inside the pores of the CMK-3 carbon host instead of a metal or alloy. This newly observed unusual oxidation behavior has major implications when applying these compounds for the targeted synthesis of homogeneous metal–carbon composite materials.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are indebted to the EU (ERSF) and the Free State of Saxony (SAB Grant No. 14227/2337) within the ADDE—Functional structure design of new high performance materials via atomic design and defect engineering (Grant No. 14227/2337) and the European Center for Emerging Materials and Processes Dresden (ECEMP) excellence clusters B1 and D2 (SAB Grant Nos. 100112628 and 100111670) for financial support. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is acknowledged for financial support (Grant No. 03KP801) for the JEOL JAMP-9500F auger electron spectrometer. The authors furthermore thank U. Georgi and R.R. Rottenkügler for fruitful discussions.

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  1. IFW Dresden, Institute for Complex Materials, D-01171, Dresden, Germany

    Markus Klose, Katja Pinkert, Martin Zier, Lars Giebeler, Steffen Oswald & Jürgen Eckert

  2. Institut für Werkstoffwissenschaft, Technische Universität Dresden, D-01069, Dresden, Germany

    Markus Klose, Inge Lindemann, Christian Bonatto Minella, Katja Pinkert, Martin Zier, Lars Giebeler & Jürgen Eckert

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  6. Materials Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64287, Darmstadt, Germany

    Oliver Gutfleisch

  7. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Applied Materials (IAM), D-76344, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

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Klose, M., Lindemann, I., Minella, C.B. et al. Unusual oxidation behavior of light metal hydride by tetrahydrofuran solvent molecules confined in ordered mesoporous carbon. Journal of Materials Research 29, 55–63 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2013.199

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