Metal-Hydrogen Research Group deals with synthesis and applications of metal hydrides. The main activity of the group is directed towards those hydrides suitable for hydrogen storage, i.e. compounds that can be loaded/unloaded reversibly with hydrogen at near ambient conditions. The group has also interest in thermochromic hydrides especially those that switches from opaque to transparent state near ambient conditions.We are also interested in the use of hydrides in material processing,i.e. hydrides as foaming agent and hydrogenation as a method of structural refinement in milling

Recent Publication:

	H. Akyıldız M. Özenbaş and T. Öztürk “ Hydrogen Storage in Mg based Crystalline Thin Films , Int. J. Hydrogen Enery, 31,2006, 1379-1383
	M. Güvendiren, E. Baybörü and T. Öztürk Effects of additives on mechanical milling and hydrogenation of magnesium powders  Int. J. of Hydrogen Energy, 29, 2004, 491-496

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Metallic thin films of suitable composition when reacted with hydrogen may alter their optical properties. Photograph above refers to Mg-Cu-Ni/Pd thin films. In the as-deposited state (left), the film is a opaque/mirror, but upon hydrogenation the film becomes transparent

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