Hydrogen in metals

NOV 01, 1978

Interstitial alloys that can store hydrogen at a greater density than either the liquid or solid element alone may have a role in future energy conversion and transmission schemes.

DOI: 10.1063/1.2994814

Donald G. Westlake

Cameron B. Satterthwaite

John H. Weaver

Research on interstitial alloys of hydrogen with metals began over a hundred years ago, but these systems had remained little more than idle curiosities until World War II. This outlook changed when hydrogen embrittlement became recognized as a serious problem in a large number of technologically important alloys and with the advent of nuclear‐reactor technology, which stimulated interest in solid metal hydrides as moderators. Several studies of the thermodynamics of metal–hydrogen systems and of hydrogen diffusion in these systems followed. The discovery in 1972 that some metal hydrides exhibit superconductivity added further interest.

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More about the Authors

Donald G. Westlake. Argonne National Laboratory.

Cameron B. Satterthwaite. University of Illinois, Urbana.

John H. Weaver. University of Wisconsin's Synchrotron Radiation Center, Stoughton, Wisconsin.