In-situ neutron diffraction study of Nd0.75Mg0.25Ni3.45Al0.15 during charge/discharge

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Nickel-metal-hydride (NiMH) batteries are widespread in everyday life from small scale electronic devices to hybrid cars.The negative electrode is usually an AB5-type alloy (A=La.. and B=Ni) with CaCu5-type structure. However, in recent years, new magnesium based alloys have been developed which store larger amounts of hydrogen than conventional alloys. In order to characterize Nd0.75Mg0.25Ni3.45Al0.15 as a negative electrode for NiMH, we aim to use the new in-situ neutron diffraction cell recently developed for Polaris to monitor the structural changes at the electrode during charge/discharge in-situ and to extract detailed structural information regarding deuterium atoms by Rietveld refinement. On top of that, the effect of battery cycling rate on structural parameters will be analysed.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.49912395
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/49912395
Provenance
Creator Dr Jordi Jacas Biendicho; Professor Dag Noreus; Dr Steve Hull
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-06-04T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-06-08T23:00:00Z