Magnesium Nanoparticles With Pd Decoration for Hydrogen Storage

Yana Liu; Jinglian Zhu; Zhibing Liu; Yunfeng Zhu; Jiguang Zhang; Liquan Li

doi:10.3389/fchem.2019.00949

Magnesium Nanoparticles With Pd Decoration for Hydrogen Storage

Front Chem. 2020 Feb 19:7:949. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2019.00949. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Yana Liu^{1

2}, Jinglian Zhu^{1

2}, Zhibing Liu^{1

2}, Yunfeng Zhu^{1

2}, Jiguang Zhang^{1

2}, Liquan Li^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ College of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China.
² Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Centre for Advanced Inorganic Function Composites, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China.

Abstract

In this work, Magnesium nanoparticles with Pd decoration, ranging from 40 to 70 nm, were successfully coprecipitated from tetrahydrofuran (THF) solution, assigned as the Mg-Pd nanocomposite. The Mg-Pd nanocomposite exhibits superior hydrogen storage properties. For the hydrogenated Mg-Pd nanocomposite at 150°C, the onset dehydrogenation temperature is significantly reduced to 216.8°C, with a lower apparent activation energy for dehydrogenation of 93.8 kJ/mol H₂. High-content γ-MgH₂ formed during the hydrogenation process, along with PH_0.706, contributes to the enhancing of desorption kinetics. The Mg-Pd nanocomposite can take up 3.0 wt% hydrogen in 2 h at a temperature as low as 50°C. During lower hydrogenation temperatures, Pd can dissociate hydrogen and create a hydrogen diffusion pathway for the Mg nanoparticles, leading to the decrease of the hydrogenation apparent activation energy (44.3 kJ/mol H₂). In addition, the Mg-Pd alloy formed during the hydrogenation/dehydrogenation process can play an active role in the reversible metal hydride transformation, destabilizing the MgH₂.

Keywords: Mg-based nanoparticles; Pd decoration; coprecipitation; hydrogen storage; γ-MgH2 phase.