Dehydrogenation mechanism and non-stoichiometric phases in high capacity lithium borohydride-titanium fluoride systems

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3LiBH4 + TiF3 releases H2 with an exceptionally low onset temperature below 100°C (giving a 9 wt% loss below 150°C). The mechanism isn¿t fully understood, with the possibility of anion substitution in the complex hydride reagent as well as the crystalline LiF product (forming LiBH4-xFx and LiF1-yHy, respectively). Due to the inability of PXD to accurately detect light elements such as H and Li (and F), we propose the use of PND to determine the composition, stoichiometry and defect structure of these substituted phases, and to follow the reaction in-situ, to elucidate the reaction mechanism for the first time. This will be achieved through 2 ex-situ experiments looking at both the hydrogenated and dehydrogenated samples under ambient conditions, and 2 in-situ experiments following the dehydrogenation whilst heating to 200°C, collecting diffraction data at set isothermal points.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.42593557
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/42593557
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Creator Mr Espen Boejesen; Professor Duncan Gregory; Dr Tuan Hoang; Miss Jen Kennedy; Dr Hazel Reardon
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
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 2013-10-31T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-11-01T00:00:00Z