The Hydrogen Storage in Alkali-Transition metal Fullerides

Intercalated alkali metal fullerides, which have been recently demonstrated promising hydrogen storage materials, have been prepared and characterized by muSR spectroscopy, known technique for the study of the interaction of the hydrogen atom with matter. The hydrogenation mechanism has been clarified and highligted the possible improvement with the addition of transition metal particles. Novel synthetic strategies have been developed to achieve the addition of platinum, palladium and nickel to lithium intercalated fullerides and the new materials were characterized with multiple solid state techniques aiming to probe their structures and understand the remarkable absorption properties which were discovered by manometric and calorimetric techniques.