Ionic disorder and phase transition studies of Lightweight Hydrides LiBH4 and CaBH4

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We ask for 3 days on EMU to study the Muon spectroscopy of both LiBH4 and Ca(BH4)2 as a function of temperature from 90K-650K. These materials have been extensively crystallographically investigated as prospective lightweight hydrogen stores. In both cases, direct hydrogen reversibility is only possible at elevated temperature and pressure. We believe this is a consequence of bulk Li+ mobility and disorder. While LiBD4 undergoes a superionic transition at 395K the (hydric) hydrogen remains attached to the BH4- unit which freely spins. We propose to study the ionic mobility (LiBH4), disorder (LiBH4 and Ca(BH4)2) and increased delocalisation of hydrogen (LiBH4 and Ca(BH4)2) as a function of temperature in these systems by Muon spectroscopy.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24072971
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24072971
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Creator Dr James Lord; Professor Bill David; Dr Martin Jones
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
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 2009-09-17T09:10:36Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-11-19T02:43:24Z