Abstract
The micro-arrangement of hydrogen atoms and the electronic properties of LaNi4.5Fe0.5H0.5 have been systematically investigated using the full-potential linearized augmented plane wave (FP-LAPW) method within the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) scheme. Firstly, the sizes of fourteen interstitial sites have been recalculated according to the Gross's method, and it is found that the radius of every interstitial site slightly increases with the substitution of Fe atom. By modeling and optimizing, the calculated results indicate that H atom prefers to occupy the 6m⁎ site (“⁎” denotes the sites in the Fe-substituted unit cell.) in the solid solution phase. In addition, the cohesive energy of LaNi4.5Fe0.5 is 5.87eV, while that of LaNi4.5Fe0.5H0.5 is 5.99eV, which indicates that the hydrides LaNi4.5Fe0.5H0.5 become more stable in contrasting with the host alloy. Based on the analysis of electric structures, the strong interaction between Fe atom and H atom improves the good characteristics of storing hydrogen for LaNi4.5Fe0.5 alloy.
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