Understanding the decomposition of ammonia by lithium-calcium imide

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Among light metal amide-imide catalysts for ammonia decomposition, lithium-calcium imide is the most promising candidate for practical application. Ex situ diffraction data indicate that there are changes in the catalyst composition during the reaction, and thus the precise reaction mechanism remains unclear. Here, we propose to conduct two days of neutron powder diffraction measurements on the POLARIS diffractometer to probe these changes, giving insight to the ammonia decomposition reaction by monitoring the structure of the catalyst during the reaction and examining the data for potential variations in stoichiometry and the extent of isotope exchange in the sample.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.67774509
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/67774509
Provenance
Creator Professor Bill David; Dr Josh Makepeace; Dr Martin Jones; Dr Hazel Hunter; Dr Ron Smith; Dr Tom Wood
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-11-09T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-11-11T08:00:00Z