Globally, the accelerating use of renewable energy sources, enabled by increased
efficiencies and reduced costs, and driven by the need to mitigate the effects of climate …

Knowledge and foundational understanding of phenomena associated with the behavior of
materials at the nanoscale is one of the key scientific challenges toward a sustainable …

Intense literature and research efforts have focussed on the exploration of complex hydrides
for energy storage applications over the past decades. A focus was dedicated to the …

Crystal structure determination is essential for characterizing materials and their properties
and can be facilitated by various tools and indicators. For instance, the Goldschmidt …

The development of alternative methods for thermal energy storage is important for
improving the efficiency and decreasing the cost of concentrating solar thermal power. We …

Hydrogen can be stored in the interstitial sites of the lattices of intermetallic compounds. To
date, intermetallic compound LaNi5 or related LaNi5-based alloys are known to be practical …

The implementation of magnesium (Mg) as a hydrogen-storage medium has long been
restricted because of its rather sluggish hydrogen sorption at high temperatures. Here, we …

Metal hydrides (MHs) are featured for their reversible hydrogen absorption and desorption
properties, which are conventionally used as hydrogen storage materials. MHs can also be …

A comparative study based on MgH 2 ball-milled with altered Ni particle sizes under different
conditions was conducted to reveal the effect of close contact between hydrides and metal …

Ternary metal hydrides are convenient and valuable systems for investigating the
metallization and superconductivity of metal hydrides because they can be synthesized …