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ACS OMEGA
Volume 7, Issue 10, Pages 8385-8390Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c05902
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- Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation [AAAA-A19-119012990095-0]
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This study investigates the diffusion of deuterium in potassium. It finds that mass transfer is predominantly controlled by the mechanism of overbarrier atomic jumps at temperatures 120-260 K and by the tunneling mechanism at 90-120 K. Moreover, it determines the conditions under which the quantum diffusion of hydrogen can be observed and predicts metals in which this phenomenon can be experimentally registered.
Diffusion of deuterium in potassium is studied herein. Mass transfer is controlled predominantly by the mechanism of overbarrier atomic jumps at temperatures 120-260 K and by the tunneling mechanism at 90-120 K. These results together with literature data allowed us to determine conditions under which the quantum diffusion of hydrogen in metals can be observed, which is a fundamental problem. It is established that in metals with a body-centered cubic lattice tunneling can be observed only at temperatures below the Debye temperature theta(D) solely for metals with theta(D) < 350 K. Predictions are made for metals in which quantum diffusion of hydrogen can be experimentally registered. Metals for which such results cannot be obtained are specified as well. Among them are important engineering materials such as alpha-Fe, W, Mo, V, and Cr.
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