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Significantly improved dehydrogenation of LiAlH destabilized by MnFe O nanoparticles

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, ISSN: 1932-7447, Vol: 116, Issue: 22, Page: 11939-11945
2012
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The effects of nanosized MnFe O additive on the dehydrogenation properties of LiAlH prepared by ball milling were investigated for the first time. It was found that the LiAlH + 7 mol % MnFe O sample started to decompose at 62 and 119 °C for the first two dehydrogenation stages and released 7.45 wt % hydrogen, which is 88 and 71 °C lower than those of as-received LiAlH , respectively. The isothermal dehydriding kinetics show that the doped LiAlH sample could release about 4.7 wt % hydrogen in 70 min at 90 °C. Furthermore, the first two dehydrogenation steps could be finished within 80 min with 7.44 wt % hydrogen released at 120 °C, whereas as-received LiAlH only released about 0.5 wt % hydrogen for the same temperature and time. From differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and Kissinger desorption kinetics analyses, the apparent activation energies, E , of the doped sample were 66.7 kJ/mol for the first dehydrogenation stage and 75.8 kJ/mol for the second dehydrogenation stage, resulting in decreases of 40.2% and 58.1% compared with those of as-received LiAlH , which are much higher than those of LiAlH doped with other reported catalysts calculated by Kissinger method. Through X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) observations, in situ formed Fe O and amorphous Mn or Mn-containing phases together provide a synergetic catalytic effect for the remarkably improved dehydrogenation properties of LiAlH . © 2012 American Chemical Society.

Bibliographic Details

Fuqiang Zhai; Ping Li; Aizhi Sun; Shen Wu; Qi Wan; Weina Zhang; Yunlong Li; Liqun Cui; Xuanhui Qu

American Chemical Society (ACS)

Materials Science; Energy; Chemistry

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