Wan-liang Mi, Zhao-sen Liu, Toru Kimura, Atsunori Kamegawa, and Hai-liang Wang, Crystal structure and hydrogen storage properties of (La,Ce)Ni5-xMx (M=Al, Fe, or Co) alloys, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 26(2019), No. 1, pp.108-113. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12613-019-1714-z
Cite this article as: Wan-liang Mi, Zhao-sen Liu, Toru Kimura, Atsunori Kamegawa, and Hai-liang Wang, Crystal structure and hydrogen storage properties of (La,Ce)Ni5-xMx (M=Al, Fe, or Co) alloys, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 26(2019), No. 1, pp.108-113. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12613-019-1714-z
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Crystal structure and hydrogen storage properties of (La,Ce)Ni5-xMx (M=Al, Fe, or Co) alloys

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This work was partially supported by International Academic Exchange Program of Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran (Japan) and University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing (China) and Environmentally Friendly Materials Education Program provided by Muroran MATERIA. This work was also supported by Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction for Metallurgical Industry, Beijing, China.

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