Process for manufacturing nanocrystalline metal hydrides

US6387152B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Klassen · Hamburg, DE
• Wolfgang Oelerich · Wiesbaden, DE
• Rudiger Bormann · Schwäbisch Hall, DE
• Volker Guther · Altdorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 14, 2000
• Grant date: May 14, 2002
• Expiry date: Jun 14, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C01B6/24
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

In a process of producing nanocrystalline metal hydrides, an elemental metal hydride of a first kind is subjected to a mechanical milling process with at least one elemental metal or at least one additional metal hydride to produce an alloy hydride.