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US 7,115,247 B2Granted
Hydrogen storage compositions and methods of manufacture thereof
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsJi-Cheng Zhao, John Patrick Lemmon
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method for making and screening a combinatorial library, comprising disposing on a substrate comprising aluminum at least one reactant comprising lithium, germanium, magnesium, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing; heat treating the substrate to create a diffusion multiple having at least one phase; contacting the diffusion multiple with hydrogen; detecting any absorption of hydrogen; and/or detecting any desorption of hydrogen.
Claims4
A method of recovering hydrogen comprising:
- contacting at least one compound in hydrogen to form a nitrogen-free hydrogenated compound;
- wherein the compound is Ge4K, GeK, GeK3, Ge4Na, GeNa, GeNa3, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing compounds;
- and
- heating the hydrogenated compound to recover the hydrogen.
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