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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 509, Issue 32, Pages 8228-8234Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2011.05.084
Keywords
Li2MgH4; LiMgH3; DFT; Structural prediction; Thermodynamic
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- National NSFC [20873071]
- MOST [2009AA03Z224, 2010CB631301]
- MOE Innovation Team [IRT0927]
- Tianjin High-Tech [10ZCGHHZ01200]
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A systematic consideration of the compounds made up of Li, Mg and H has been taken with respect to the structural, electronic, and thermodynamic properties, by means of density functional theory (DFT). Through the database mining approach, the ground state structures of LiMgH3 and Li2MgH4 are identified to be R3c and Pbam, respectively. The Li-Mg-H ternary hydrides are insulators dominated by ionic bonds besides some covalent components between Mg and H. Energies of different formation pathways have been calculated at finite temperature. Hydrides synthesized from Li, Mg and H-2 possess obvious energetic advantage, but may be inhabited kinetically by pure phase separation. Thermodynamically reversible decomposition to LiH and MgH2 brings about another issue for the actual preparation and stable existence of the ternary hydrides. Inserting H atoms to the sites of the ordered alloys with high electric density has been taken as another way to explore possible structures of this system. As H uptakes stepwise, the resulted compounds turn from conductors to insulators. The present results shed light on the design of Li-Mg-H ternary hydrides. (C) 2011 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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