Eur. Phys. J. B (2014) 87: 110
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2014-40650-3

Regular Article

Hydrogen reservoirs, an ab-initio study on saline hydrides based on Li/Be-H compounds

Grupo de Estudio de Materiales y Dispositivos Electrónicos, GEMyDE, Departamento de Electrotecnia, Facultad de Ingeniería, UNLP, 1900 La Plata, Argentina

^a e-mail: eitelpyb@ing.unlp.edu.ar

Received: 5 July 2013
Received in final form: 17 January 2014
Published online: 12 May 2014

Abstract

Research into new materials to be used as hydrogen reservoirs is necessary, the increasing demand of energy in the world should be covered progressively by clean energies, trying not to pollute the environment. With this work we wish to contribute to the knowledge of the different saline hydrides and the possibility of using these as hydrogen reservoirs. We performed a systematic study on these materials. In this work we used different ab-initio codes to study several compounds of lithium and beryllium with hydrogen.