Reduction and unusual recovery in the reversible hydrogen storage capacity of VTi during hydrogen cycling

Kim, H.*; Sakaki, Koji*; Saita, Itoko*; Enoki, Hirotoshi*; Noguchi, Kazuo*; Machida, Akihiko; Watanuki, Tetsu; Nakamura, Yumiko*

The effect of the vanadium content on the cyclic stability of V-Ti binary alloys was investigated. VTi, 0.2 and 0.5 samples were hydrogenated and dehydrogenated at 410 K and 553 K respectively, for more than 100 times. During hydrogen cycling, reduction in the reversible hydrogen storage capacity was clearly observed from both samples. In addition, the shape of the pressure-composition-isotherm curves was significantly altered over the testing cycle period; the absorption and desorption plateaus got markedly inclined and the hysteresis became evidently smaller. We found that even after the hydrogen storage capacity of VTi was significantly reduced, at low enough temperature VTi was able to absorb hydrogen as much as it did at the first cycle.