Perspectives of high entropy alloys as hydrogen storage materials

Abstract

Storage is a challenging issue that cuts across distribution, delivery, and safe end-uses of hydrogen as fuel. All the fuel cell vehicles are equipped with inefficient and unsafe high-pressure hydrogen cylinders. It is well known that storing such a highly flammable gas at high pressure is not safe. Only hydrogen can be stored safely as a form of metal hydrides, and all the investigated metal hydrides are inefficient in one way or another. Four essential hydrogen parameters for solid-state storage for fuel cell applications are high volumetric storage capacity, excellent heat transfer, and recharge time and feasible charging discharging temperatures. The available metal tanks have good gravimetric storage capacity but did not satisfy the prescribed criterion for good volumetric capacity necessary for mobile applications. Recently, some promising reports are published on the hydrogen storage properties of newly discovered High Entropy Alloys (HEAs). HEAs provide vast composition selection freedom for the formation of favorable simple solid solution phase for hydrogen storage. The four core effects of these alloys may also play a vital role in hydrogen storage properties. Here we reviewed and summarized the published results on hydrogen storage properties of HEAs to date. We underlined different essential aspects for the future development of HEAs as hydrogen storage materials. This review article discusses and describes the perspectives of HEAs in regards to the hydrogen storage applications of these alloys and will provide insight into the future development of hydrogen storage HEAs.