Palladium–copper–gold
(PdCuAu) ternary alloy membranes
are promising alternatives to pure palladium for the purpose of hydrogen
separation processes. In the current work, PdCuAu ternary alloys were
prepared by magnetron cosputtering deposition. All as-deposited samples
showed face-centered cubic (fcc) structure in the composition range
of study: 30 ≤ [Pd] ≤ 100, 0 ≤ [Cu] ≤
66, and 0 ≤ [Au] ≤ 6 (in at%). The body-centered cubic
(bcc) phase was prepared from the fcc samples by annealing for 4 h
at 400 °C under Ar and was identified in alloys with Pd content
between 40 and 46 at%. The hydrogen solubility was evaluated for both
fcc and bcc phases using an electrochemical method and an electrochemical
in situ X-ray diffraction method, respectively. The alloys’
hydrogen solubility increases with the lattice parameter and palladium
content, and decreases with crystallite size and phase transition
to bcc. In the same range of composition, the hydrogen solubility
of the fcc and bcc phases vary in the same way with palladium content,
suggesting that the latter factor is an important determinant of the
hydrogen solubility in each phase.
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