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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 40, Issue 33, Pages 10516-10526Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2015.06.128
Keywords
Hydrogen storage; Mg(BH4)(2); Substitution; Diffusion path; First-principles
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21171047, 21373075, 21102033, 21372062]
- Education Department Foundation of Hebei Province [ZD20131053]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province [B2015205210]
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First-principles calculations were performed to investigate the influences of Al, Ti and Nb doping on the structure, the hydrogen dissociation energy, the electronic structure and the diffusion path of H atom in Mg(BH4)(2)(001) surface. The calculated occupation energies indicate that substitution of Mg atom with Ti is the easiest, with Al is a little harder, and with Nb is the most difficult. The doping can reduce the strengths of B-H bonds around the dopants thus favours the dissociation of these H atoms. In comparison, the Nb doping shows the most outstanding effect and the Al doping has the least influence on the dissociation of hydrogen atoms. The minimum energy pathways (MEP) calculations indicate that the substitutions with Ti and Nb can reduce the energy barriers of hydrogen diffusion and thus facilitate H diffusion in the Mg(BH4)(2)(001) surface, whereas the substitution with Al is not an effective technique for improving the hydrogenation/dehydrogenation performance of Mg(BH4)(2). Copyright (C) 2015, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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