Hydrogen generation by hydrolysis of ultrafine microstructure Mg10Ni alloy wire

This work presents a MgNi alloy wire prepared by a combination of extrusion and multi-pass hot drawing for fast hydrogen generation from aqueous NaCl solution. The results showed that the hydrogen generation rates of the wire were significantly improved compared to the as-cast alloy. The hydrolysis of the MgNi alloy wire produced 820 ml g−1 hydrogen in 16 min and the maximum hydrogen generation rates reached 67.86 ml g−1 min−1 in 3.5 % NaCl solution and at 25 °C. The improved hydrogen production properties can be attributed to the increase in specific surface area and the ultrafine microstructure with highly dispersed submicron Mg2Ni particles of the MgNi alloy wire.