Impact of severe plastic deformation on kinetics and thermodynamics of hydrogen storage in magnesium and its alloys

Magnesium and its alloys are the most investigated materials for solid-state hydrogen storage in the form of metal hydrides,but there are still unresolved problems with the kinetics and thermodynamics of hydrogenation and dehydrogenation of this group of materials.Severe plastic deformation(SPD)methods,such as equal-channel angular pressing(ECAP),high-pressure torsion(HPT),intensive rolling,and fast forging,have been widely used to enhance the activation,air resistance,and hydrogenation/dehydrogenation kinetics of Mg-based hydrogen storage materials by introducing ultrafine/nanoscale grains and crystal lattice defects.These severely deformed materials,particularly in the presence of alloying additives or second-phase nanoparticles,can show not only fast hydrogen absorption/desorption kinetics but also good cycling stability.It was shown that some materials that are apparently inert to hydrogen can absorb hydrogen after SPD processing.Moreover,the SPD methods were effectively used for hydrogen binding-energy engineering and synthesizing new magnesium alloys with low thermodynamic stability for reversible low/room-temperature hydrogen storage,such as nanoglasses,high-entropy alloys,and metastable phases including the high-pressureγ-MgH2 polymorph.This work reviews recent advances in the development of Mg-based hydrogen storage materials by SPD processing and discusses their potential in future applications.

Recent advances in metastable alloys for hydrogen storage:a review

Development of new materials with high hydrogen storage capacity and reversible hydrogen sorp-tion performances under mild conditions has very high value in both fundamental and application aspects.In the past years,some new systems with metastable structures,such as ultra-fine nanocrystalline alloys,amorphous alloys,nanoglass alloys,immiscible alloys,high-entropy alloys,have been abundantly studied as hydrogen storage mate-rials.Many new hydrogen storage properties either from the kinetics or thermodynamics aspects have been reported.In this review,recent advances of studies on metastable alloys for hydrogen storage applications have been comprehensively reviewed.The materials preparation methods to synthesize metastable hydrogen storage alloys are firstly reviewed.Afterwards,hydrogen storage prop-erties of the metastable alloys are summarized and dis-cussed,focusing on the unique kinetics and thermodynamics properties by forming of such unique metastable structures.For examples,superior hydrogena-tion kinetics and higher hydrogen storage capacity have been achieved in Mg-based amorphous and nanoglass alloys.Destabilized thermodynamics properties can be obtained in the immiscible Mg-Mn and Mg-Zr alloys.In addition to highlighting the recent achievements of metastable alloys in the field of hydrogen storage,the remaining challenges and trends of the emerging research are also discussed.

2022 roadmap on hydrogen energy from production to utilizations

Hydrogen has been always the hot topic,which drives a lot of researchers to study and explore hydrogenrelated projects and fields.The first subfield is hydrogen production with green and cost-effective means.Some methods have been intensively used for high-efficient hydrogen production,i.e.,catalytic chemical hydrogen generation,electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution,photocatalytic hydrogen evolution,photo-electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution.Most of them are driven by various catalysts.Moreover,the hydrogen storage is also an important question,which is also a present research hot topic,although the history is long with several decades.Hydrogen fuel cells have also obtained great attention due to the zero emissions.The related research mainly focuses on the cell systems and electrocatalysts used.Under this background,we invite some excellent research groups to write this progress on hydrogen from production to utilizations.Finally,we believe that this roadmap on hydrogen can give some useful guidance in future research.

变形和能量注入协同作用制备可控非晶纳米晶结构超高饱和磁化强度FeCoB粉末

非晶纳米晶磁粉芯(ANMPCs)是电子元器件在高频应用的关键软磁材料.但其相对较低的饱和磁化强度无法满足器件的小型化要求.强Fe-Co交换耦合非晶纳米晶粉是制备高磁化强度ANMPCs的潜在材料.本文采用机械球磨法制备了一系列(Fe_(0.8)Co_(0.2))_(87)B_(13)软磁粉末,这些粉末的非晶相、纳米晶相含量和粒径可调.在球磨过程中,出现了合金化、玻璃化和纳米化三个阶段以及粉末形貌和尺寸的非线性变化,进而导致ANMPCs软磁性能的非单调变化.磁粉具有超高饱和磁化强度达239 emu g^(-1),有效磁导率为33.球磨150 h后,FeCoB粉末非晶-纳米晶双相结构达到动态平衡,同时粒径达亚微米尺度,从而提高了粉末高频稳定性且降低了磁芯损耗.在变形和能量注入的协同作用下,机械球磨实现了含极高铁磁元素的非晶-纳米晶双相粉末可控制备、提高了高磁化强度ANMPCs综合软磁性能.