Stress effects on the kinetics of hydride formation and growth in metals

Abstract

Although metal hydrides are considered promising candidates for solidstate hydrogen storage, their use for practical applications remains a challenge due to the limitation imposed by the slow kinetics of hydrogen uptake and release, which has driven the interest in using metal nanoparticles as advanced materials of new hydrogen-storage systems since they display fast hydrogenation and dehydrogenation kinetics. Nevertheless, the understanding of the adsorption/release kinetics requires the investigation of the role played by the stress which appears to accommodate the misfit between the metal and hydride phases. In this paper, we present a continuum theory capable of assessing how the misfit stress affects the kinetics of hydride formation and growth in metallic nanoparticles. The theory is then applied to study the kinetics of adsorption/release in spherical particles. This work extends Duda and Tomassetti (2015, 2016) by considering stress-dependent hydrogen mobility.

Preface to the special issue of the International Symposium on Solid Mechanics (MecSol 2017)

“…• New Developments and Applications: beam-column (Hortencio and Falcón, 2018) and bolted (Vilela et al, 2018) connection design, assessment of flexible fixtures (Negri et al, 2018), and hydride formation and growth in metals (Souza et al, 2018).…”