Ionic disorder studies of lightweight hydrides by VESUVIO

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We ask for 8 days on VESUVIO to study the momentum distribution of LiBH4, Li2NH and Li1+xNH2-x as a function of temperature from 10K-653K (depending on sample). Li2NH and Li1+xNH2-x may reversibly store hydrogen under relatively facile conditions, whereas LiBH4 requires elevate pressures and temperatures. We believe this to be a consequence of bulk Li+ and H+ mobility and disorder. LiBH4 also undergoes a superionic transition at 395K but whereas the delta +ve hydrogen in Li2NH diffusively follows Li+, in LiBD4, the delta -ve hydrogen remains attached to the BH4- unit which freely spins. To support this hypothesis we wish to investigate the temperature resolved disorder of three systems; LiBH4, which undergoes a order-disorder transition at ~393k; Li2NH, which undergoes a second-order order-disorder transition above 360K; and Li1+xNH2-x which is a disordered solid.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079616
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079616
Provenance
Creator Dr Martin Jones; Professor Bill David
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-08-06T08:06:54Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-08-13T07:02:23Z