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Improved dehydrogenation/rehydrogenation performance of LiBH4 by doping mesoporous Fe2O3 or/and TiF3

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The LiBH4 + mesoporous Fe2O3 (defined as M-Fe2O3) mono-doped and LiBH4 + M-Fe2O3 + TiF3 co-doped hybrid materials were prepared by ball milling process. A variety of characterization methods, such as thermogravimetric, differential scanning calorimetry, X-ray diffraction, and pressure–composition–temperature instrument, were used for examinations of the two materials’ performances of storage/release of hydrogen, catalytic activity, kinetics, and thermodynamics. All the results showed that the M-Fe2O3 prepared in laboratory exhibited a good catalytic effect. Compared with the performance of M-Fe2O3 mono-doped system, M-Fe2O3 and TiF3 co-doped mode exhibits a better performance using the same additive content. Thus, the M-Fe2O3 and TiF3 co-doped mode possesses a collaborative catalytic utility with the LiBH4 hydrogen performance improved, showing a promising application.

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Acknowledgements

This study was financially supported by the “973 Project” (2010CB631303), NSFC (20833009, 51071146, 21173111, 20903095, 51071081, 51101145, U0734005, and 51102230), Liaoning BaiQianWan Talents Program (No. 2010921050), Liaoning Education Committee (L2010223), Solar Energy Action Plan of CAS, IUPAC (Project No. 2008-006-3-100), The Joint Project of Guangdong Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences (2010A090100034), and the State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology (Grant No. KFJJ10-1Z).

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  1. Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Protection for Electric Power and Transportation, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, 410004, People’s Republic of China

    Hui Zhang, Zhong Cao & Hui Liu

  2. Materials and Thermochemistry Laboratory, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, People’s Republic of China

    Hui Zhang, Li-Xian Sun, Hui Liu, Jian Zhang, Zi-Qiang Huang, Xia Jiang, Zhi-Bao Li, Shuang Liu, Shuang Wang & Cheng-Li Jiao

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  6. Center for Hyper Media Research, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo Polytechnic University, 1583 Iiyama, Atsugi, Kanagawa, 243-0297, Japan

    Yutaka Sawada

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Zhang, H., Cao, Z., Sun, LX. et al. Improved dehydrogenation/rehydrogenation performance of LiBH4 by doping mesoporous Fe2O3 or/and TiF3 . J Therm Anal Calorim 112, 1407–1414 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-012-2721-8

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