Role of Ti doping and Al and B vacancies in the dehydrogenation of Al(BH4)3

Indrani Choudhuri; Arup Mahata; Kuber Singh Rawat; Biswarup Pathak

doi:10.1007/s12039-016-1148-3

Role of Ti doping and Al and B vacancies in the dehydrogenation of Al(BH₄)₃

Indrani Choudhuri, Arup Mahata, Kuber Singh Rawat, Biswarup Pathak

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Abstract

Metal borohydrides such as Al(BH₄)₃ is thermodynamically very stable but has weak dehydrogenation property. In contrast, Ti(BH₄)₃ has less stability (25°C) but excellent dehydrogenation property. Hence, we have studied Ti-doped aluminium borohydride systems in order to improve the dehydrogenation property. Our density functional studies (DOS and pDOS) show that Ti interacts more strongly with the BH₄ unit and such strong interaction weakens the B-H bond and improves the dehydrogenation property. Ti-doped Al(BH₄)₃ system improves the overall stability due to the formation of a stronger Ti-B bond. Our study on defects in Al(BH₄)₃ suggests that B-defect system has the best dehydrogenation property compared to the pure and Ti-doped Al(BH₄)₃ systems. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1651-1662
Number of pages	12
Journal	Journal of Chemical Sciences
Volume	128
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12039-016-1148-3
State	Published - Oct 1 2016
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
We thank IIT Indore for the lab and computing facilities. This work is supported by DST-SERB (EMR/2015/ 002057), New Delhi. IC, AM, and KSR thank MHRD, CSIR and UGC for the research fellowship.

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© 2016, Indian Academy of Sciences.

Keywords

Borohydrides
defects
dehydrogenation
doping
hydrogen storage

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