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ULTRAMICROSCOPY
Volume 175, Issue -, Pages 111-115Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2017.01.017
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Multislice simulation; Magnesium hydride; In-situ TEM; Environmental cell
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- Reiner Lemoine Foundation
- TU Dresden Graduate Academy
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The use of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) for the structural characterization of many nanostructured hydrides, which are relevant for solid state hydrogen storage, is hindered due to a rapid decomposition of the specimen upon irradiation with the electron beam. Environmental TEM allows to stabilize the hydrides by applying a hydrogen back pressure of up to 4.5 bar in a windowed environmental cell. The feasibility of high-resolution TEM (HRTEM) investigations of light weight metals and metal hydrides in such a nanoreactor is studied theoretically by means of multislice HRTEM contrast simulations using Mg and its hydride phase, MgH2, as model system. Such a setup provides the general opportunity to study dehydrogenation and hydrogenation reactions at the nanoscale under technological application conditions. We analyze the dependence of both the spatial resolution and the HRTEM image contrast on parameters such as the defocus, the metal/hydride thickness, and the hydrogen pressure in order to explore the possibilities and limitations of in-situ experiments with windowed environmental cells. Such simulations may be highly valuable to pre-evaluate future experimental studies. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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