Page 255 - Academic Press Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology 3rd InOrganic Chemistry

P1: FJU/FFV P2: FJU Final Pages
Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology EN009A-426 July 6, 2001 20:44

458 Metal Hydrides

hydrides is expected to play a vital role, as well as the ex- Buschow, K. H. J. (1984). Hydrogen absorption in intermetallic com-
plorative synthesis of new materials with unusual proper- pounds. In “Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths”
ties, i.e., high oxidation states by high-pressure synthesis. (K. A. Gschneidner, Jr., and L.Eyring, eds.), Vol. 6, pp. 1–111. North-
Holland Physics Publishing, Amsterdam.
A largely unexplored field is the reaction pathway for hy-
Fukai, Y. (1993). “The Metal–Hydrogen System,” Springer-Verlag,
drogenation of metals and intermetallic compounds. Un- Berlin.
fortunately, physical properties of metal hydrides are most Furrer, A. (ed.) (1994). “Neutron Scattering from Hydrogen in Materi-
often not as well characterized as their crystal structure. als,” World Scientific, Singapore.
This is largely due to the difficulty of synthesizing single- Gingl, F., Gelato, L., and Yvon, K. (1997). The hydride fluoride crystal
structure database, HFD. J. Alloys Compounds 253–254, 286–290.
phase samples and single crystals of sufficient size and
Libowitz, G. G., and Maeland, A. J. (1979). Hydrides. In “Handbook
quality—another challenge for future research. The de- on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths” (K. A. Gschneidner,
velopments of the past decade brought a breakthrough in Jr., and L. Eyring, eds.), Vol. 3, pp. 299–336. North-Holland Physics
metal hydride technology in some areas, such as the Ni- Publishing, Amsterdam.
MH battery. One hopes that this encouraging progress and Moyer, R. O., Jr., Lindsay, R., and Marks, D. N. (1978). Results of
reactions designed to produce ternary hydrides of some rarer platinum
the continued interest of both basic and applied research
metals with europium ytterbium, Adv. Chem. Ser. 167, 366–381.
in metal hydrides will guarantee that this is not the end of Sastri, M. V. C., Viswanathan, B., and Srinisawa Murthy, S. (1998).
the story. “Metal Hydrides,” Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi.
Schlapbach, L. (ed.) (1988). “Hydrogen in Intermetallic Compounds
I/II,” Vol. 63/64, “Topics in Applied Physics.” Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
SEE ALSO THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES Thomas, G., and Sandrock, G. (2000). Hydride Information Center,
http://hydpark.ca.sandia.gov/.
Wang, Q. D., and Lei, Y. Q. (eds.) (1999). “Proceedings of the Interna-
BORON HYDRIDES • CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS •
tional Symposium on Metal–Hydrogen Systems—Fundamentals and
HYDROGEN BOND • METAL CLUSTER CHEMISTRY •
Applications, Hangzhou, China, October 4–9, 1998,” J. Alloys Com-
METAL FORMING • SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
pounds 293–295.
Winter, C. J., and Nitsch, J. (eds.) (1988). “Hydrogen as an Energy
Carrier,” Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Yvon, K. (1994). “Hydrides: Solid state transition metal complexes,”
In “Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry” (R. B. King, ed.), Vol. 3,
Bronger, W., and Auffermann, G. (1998). New ternary alkali-metal– pp. 1401–1420. Wiley, New York.
transition-metal hydrides synthesized at high pressures: Characteriza- Yvon, K. (1998). Complex transition-metal hydrides. Chimia 52, 613–
tion and properties. Chem. Mat. 10, 2723–2732. 619.