of complex rare-earth aluminum hydride was prepared by mechanochemical preparation. The crystal structure of the REAlH(6) (with RE = La, Ce, Pr, Nd) compounds was calculated by DFT methods and confirmed by preliminary structure refinements. The trigonal crystal structure consists of isolated [AlH(6)](3-) octahedra bridged via [12] coordinated RE cations. The investigation of the rare-earth aluminum hydrides
Investigation on the nature of active species in the CeCl3-doped sodium alanate system
作者:Xiulin Fan、Xuezhang Xiao、Lixin Chen、Shouquan Li、Qidong Wang
DOI:10.1016/j.jallcom.2010.10.065
日期:2011.9
CeCl3-doped NaAlH4 was directly synthesized in hydrogenation process using NaH/Al with 2 mol% CeCl3 under ball-milling. X-ray diffraction was utilized to unveil the nature of cerium during NaAlH4 synthesis process and succedent cycling. It is found that, CeCl3 is reduced in the ball-milling process and following cycles, causing the formation of NaCl and Al-Ce alloy with a structure of CeAl4. The catalytic enhancement arising upon doping the ball-milled CeAl4 alloy is quite similar to that achieved in the CeCl3-doped sodium alanate. Because the CeAl4 dopant does not consume the effective hydrogen storage component, the CeAl4-doped NaAlH4 exhibits more hydrogen storage capacity. Moreover, CeCl3-doped NaAlH4 and CeAl4-doped NaAlH4 exhibit similar apparent activation energies estimated from Kissinger's method, suggesting the reactions are all determined by the same rate-limiting step. These results clearly demonstrate that the in situ formed CeAl4 acts as active species to catalyze the reversible dehydriding/rehydriding of NaAlH4. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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