Abstract
Interstitial metal hydrides were studied by in situ powder neutron diffraction for their use in hydrogen storage. The main focus was the distribution of hydrogen atoms in the materials. In full hydrides of LaNi 5− x Al x , hydrogen occupation depended strongly on the amount of Al. The symmetry varied from P6 3mc ( x=0) to P6mm ( x=0.1) and P6/mmm ( x⩾0.25) with change in occupancy of each site. Variation in hydrogen occupation during absorption and desorption was analyzed for LaNi 4.78Sn 0.22. Redistribution between three tetrahedral sites was observed during desorption. La 5Ni 19-based hydrides with a structure consisting of stacking La 2Ni 4 and LaNi 5 cells were also studied. Rietveld refinement of La 4MgNi 19D ∼24 showed that hydrogen distributed almost evenly in LaMgNi 4 and LaNi 5 cells (0.8–1.0 H/M), which was consistent with the uniform lattice expansion of those cells. This result indicated that substitution of Mg for La changed the preferred sites for hydrogen occupation in the La 2Ni 4 and LaNi 5 cells.
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