Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Metal-hydrogen systems with an exceptionally large and tunable thermodynamic destabilization

  • Peter Ngene,
  • Alessandro Longo,
  • Lennard Mooij,
  • Wim Bras,
  • Bernard Dam

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02043-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Tailoring the thermodynamics of metal-hydrogen interactions is crucial for tuning the properties of metal hydrides but remains difficult to control. Here, the authors create an yttrium hydrogen sensor sensitive to pressure changes of up to four orders of magnitude by adding zirconium into the Y lattice.