Journal
JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 404, Issue -, Pages 457-460Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2004.09.096
Keywords
electrode materials; hydrogen storage materials; thin films
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Thorough electrochemical materials research has been performed on thin films of novel magnesium-scandium hydrogen storage alloys. It was found that palladium-capped thin films of MgSc(1-x) with different compositions (ranging from x = 0.50-0.90) show an increase in hydrogen storage capacity of more than 5-20% as compared to their bulk equivalents using even higher discharge rates. The maximum reversible hydrogen storage capacity at the optimal composition (Mg80Sc20) amounts to 1795 mAh/g corresponding to a hydrogen content of 2.05 H/M or 6.7 wt.%, which is close to five times that of the commonly used hydride-forming materials in commercial NiMH batteries. Galvanostatic intermittent titration technique (GITT) measurements show that the equilibrium pressure during discharge is lower than that of bulk powders by one order of magnitude (10(-6) mbar versus 10(-6) mbar, respectively). (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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