Magnesium-graphene interphase boundaries created by high-pressure torsion enhance hydrogen storage kinetics:Mechanisms and significance of activation energy and frequency factor
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| author | Zhou, Runchen Edalati, Payam Alhayek, Anthony Dangwal, Shivam Novelli, Marc Islam, Md. Amirul Saha, Baran Bidyut Grosdidier, Thierry Edalati, Kaveh |
| author_facet | Zhou, Runchen Edalati, Payam Alhayek, Anthony Dangwal, Shivam Novelli, Marc Islam, Md. Amirul Saha, Baran Bidyut Grosdidier, Thierry Edalati, Kaveh |
| contents | A strategy to overcome sluggish hydrogenation/dehydrogenation of magnesium is demonstrated by creating magnesium-graphene interphase boundaries via high-pressure torsion (HPT). HPT reduces the grain size of pure magnesium from 1 mm to 850 nm, with 70% of grain boundaries having high misorientation angles. Graphene addition leads to even finer grain sizes of 10-500 nm with a bimodal morphology. The magnesium-graphene composites exhibit superior kinetics at 623 K while maintaining high air resistance. Kinetic modeling reveals that the rate-controlling mechanism transits from interfacial reaction in coarse-grained magnesium to atomic diffusion in magnesium-graphene nanocomposites. Kissinger analysis shows that the activation energy for hydrogen desorption remains unchanged at 145 +/- 2 kJ/mol, regardless of the presence of grain or interphase boundaries. However, the frequency factor (number of successful attempts to overcome the activation energy) increases with the generation of interfaces, which serve as sites for hydrogen diffusion and heterogeneous metal/hydride nucleation. These findings highlight the impact of interphase boundary engineering via severe plastic deformation for enhancing the kinetics and air resistance of hydrogen storage materials. |
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| spellingShingle | Magnesium-graphene interphase boundaries created by high-pressure torsion enhance hydrogen storage kinetics:Mechanisms and significance of activation energy and frequency factor Zhou, Runchen Edalati, Payam Alhayek, Anthony Dangwal, Shivam Novelli, Marc Islam, Md. Amirul Saha, Baran Bidyut Grosdidier, Thierry Edalati, Kaveh Materials Science A strategy to overcome sluggish hydrogenation/dehydrogenation of magnesium is demonstrated by creating magnesium-graphene interphase boundaries via high-pressure torsion (HPT). HPT reduces the grain size of pure magnesium from 1 mm to 850 nm, with 70% of grain boundaries having high misorientation angles. Graphene addition leads to even finer grain sizes of 10-500 nm with a bimodal morphology. The magnesium-graphene composites exhibit superior kinetics at 623 K while maintaining high air resistance. Kinetic modeling reveals that the rate-controlling mechanism transits from interfacial reaction in coarse-grained magnesium to atomic diffusion in magnesium-graphene nanocomposites. Kissinger analysis shows that the activation energy for hydrogen desorption remains unchanged at 145 +/- 2 kJ/mol, regardless of the presence of grain or interphase boundaries. However, the frequency factor (number of successful attempts to overcome the activation energy) increases with the generation of interfaces, which serve as sites for hydrogen diffusion and heterogeneous metal/hydride nucleation. These findings highlight the impact of interphase boundary engineering via severe plastic deformation for enhancing the kinetics and air resistance of hydrogen storage materials. |
| title | Magnesium-graphene interphase boundaries created by high-pressure torsion enhance hydrogen storage kinetics:Mechanisms and significance of activation energy and frequency factor |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13184 |