Recent Developments of Dopants for Hydrogen
Exchange in Alanates
Maximilian Fichtner
Forschungszentrum
Karlsruhe, Institute of Nanotechnology,
One of the major obstacles for the application
of complex hydrides in mobile applications is the slow hydrogenation kinetics
of the materials. Therefore, a number of attempts have been undertaken to
develop both fast and cost-effective catalysts.
The contribution will give a short review on
the state-of-the art in the literature. Furthermore, the results of recent
attempts for a drastical cost reduction of Ti-based catalysts and the
properties of new dopants for alanates will be presented.