Hydrogen Effect on Creation of Nanoporous Palladium by Palladium Hydride Wire Explosion

Abstract

Recently, we discovered a novel, nonchemical, method to create nanoporous palladium through an electrical wire explosion [8]. Others have used electrical wire explosions to produce metal nanopowders, but not nanoporous metals [9]. In our experiment, with the intended application to high energy density physics, deuterium loaded wires were pulsed with a low energy pulse, a so

Decomposition of Supported Pd Hydride Nanoparticles for the Synthesis of Highly Dispersed Metallic Catalyst

“…Decomposition of hydride in Pd single crystals results in crack formation . It has been shown recently that nonequilibrated fast electric heating of Pd hydride films results in explosive decomposition of metal and deformation of the structure . It led us to the new approach for the synthesis of highly dispersed Pd catalyst.…”