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US 10,307,746 B2Granted
Palladium hydride nanomaterials
AssigneeThe Regents of the University of California
InventorsXiangfeng Duan, Yu Huang, Zipeng Zhao, Xiaoqing Huang
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Abstract
A palladium hydride nanomaterial includes nanostructures having a chemical composition represented by the formula: My-PdxHz, where M is at least one metal different from palladium; x has a non-zero value in the range of 0 to 5; y has a value in the range of 0 to 5; and z has a non-zero value in the range of 0 to 5.
Claims20
A palladium hydride nanomaterial, comprising:
- nanostructures having a chemical composition represented by the formula:
- My-PdxHz, wherein
- M is at least one metal different from palladium;
- x has a non-zero value in the range of 0 to 5;
- y has a value in the range of 0 to 5;
- and
- z has a non-zero value in the range of 0 to 5,
- wherein a sum of x and y is equal to 1, and a ratio of z to the sum of x and y is less than or equal to 0.5,
- wherein the nanostructures have sizes in the range of 1 nm to 500 nm.
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A palladium hydride nanomaterial, comprising:
- nanostructures having a chemical composition represented by the formula:
- My-PdxHz, wherein
- M is at least one metal different from palladium;
- x has a non-zero value in the range of 0 to 5;
- y has a non-zero value in the range of 0 to 5;
- and
- z has a non-zero value in the range of 0 to 5,
- wherein the nanostructures have sizes in the range of 1 nm to 500 nm.
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A solution phase synthesis method to form a palladium alloy hydride nanomaterial, comprising:
- reacting a palladium-containing precursor and at least one other metal-containing precursor in a liquid medium to form nanostructures of a palladium alloy hydride, wherein the metal-containing precursor includes a metal different from palladium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.