Hydrogen storage and cyclic properties of V60Ti(21.4+x)Cr(6.6−x)Fe12 (0 ≤ x ≤ 3) alloys

Hydrogen storage and cyclic properties of V60Ti(21.4+x)Cr(6.6−x)Fe12 (0 ≤ x ≤ 3) alloys were investigated systematically. All alloys were composed of single BCC phase and exhibited good activation performance. V60Ti22.4Cr5.6Fe12 showed the highest desorption capacity of 2.12 wt% with the plateau pressure of 0.061 MPa. In the absorption–desorption cycle tests, both the hydrogen desorption capacity and the micro-strain of V60Ti22.4Cr5.6Fe12 alloy showed exponential relationship with the increase of cycle numbers, which indicated that the micro-strain induced and thereafter accumulated during the absorption–desorption cycles might lead to the decrease of the desorption capacity.