Stability of the hydrogen-storage compound Li(6)Mg(NH)(4) from first principles

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Zhang, F, Wang Y, Chou MY.  2011.  Stability of the hydrogen-storage compound Li(6)Mg(NH)(4) from first principles, Jan. Physical Review B. 83:4., Number 1

Abstract:

It has been demonstrated that replacing Li(2)NH with the mixed imide Li(2)Mg(NH)(2) improves the reaction conditions for the hydrogen-storage system Li(2)NH + H(2) <-> LiNH(2) + LiH, at the expense of reducing the gravitational hydrogen capacity from 6.5% to 5.6%. In this article, we report from first-principles calculations a possible mixed imide Li(6)Mg(NH)(4) that has less Mg concentration and higher gravimetric capacity for hydrogen storage than Li(2)Mg(NH)(2). We find that Li(6)Mg(NH)(4) is thermodynamically more stable than the phase-separated mixture of Li(2)Mg(NH)(2) and Li(2)NH over a large temperature range. The reaction LiH + 1/4Mg(NH(2))(2) + 1/2LiNH(2) <-> 1/4Li(6)Mg(NH)(4) + H(2) can be completed via two steps and releases 6.0 wt % hydrogen in total, at a temperature about 40 degrees C lower than that for the cycling between LiNH(2) and Li(2)NH.

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