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US 4,283,226 AGranted
Method of preparing titanium iron-containing material for hydrogen storage
AssigneeU.S. Philips Corporation
InventorsHarmannus H. van Mal, Hendrik A. van Esveld, Johannes S. van Wieringen, Kurt H. J. Buschow
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Abstract
A material for storing hydrogen consisting of a titanium-iron alloy having 5-30 at.% of one or more metals of the group chromium, zirconium, manganese and vanadium.
Claims4
A method of preparing a material for storing hydrogen, comprising the steps of:
- fusing titanium and iron, in a mutual ratio in gram-atoms of between 4:1 and 0.67:1, in combination with 5-30 atom % of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of chromium, zirconium and vanadium;
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- activating the material obtained by exposing it to a hydrogen atmosphere at ambient temperature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.