nSe N M R spectra of single-crystalline 2H-NbSez and IT-VSer have been measured in the temperature range 7-295 K. For both compounds the NMR lineshape is smngly affected by the phase transition to the charge density wave (CDW) state at = 31 K and I IO IC, respectively.The tempemure dependence of the normalized m w amplitude (order panmeter of the phase transition) is obtained from the width of the Knight shi n distributions below TO. For 2H-NbSez the type of phasing of the locally commensurate CDW state is determined from the combined analysis of the "Se and " b NMR specva measured on the same sample.
In order to study the mobility of hydrogen in nanostructured Laves-phase hydrides, we have measured the proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra and the proton spin-lattice and spin-spin relaxation rates in two nanostructured systems prepared by ball milling: ZrCr(2)H(3) and TaV(2)H(1+δ). The proton NMR measurements have been performed at the resonance frequencies of 14, 23.8 and 90 MHz over the temperature ranges 11-424 K (for coarse-grained samples) and 11-384 K (for nanostructured samples). Hydrogen mobility in the ball-milled ZrCr(2)H(3) is found to decrease strongly with increasing milling time. The experimental data suggest that this effect is related to the growth of the fraction of highly distorted intergrain regions where H mobility is much lower than in the crystalline grains. For the nanostructured TaV(2)H(1+δ) system, the ball milling is found to lead to a slight decrease in the long-range H mobility and to a suppression of the fast localized H motion in the crystalline grains.
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