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The McGrady group has partnered with C-Therm technologies to measure thermal properties of comercially relevent metal hydrides. Check out C-Therm's innovative technology here: Thermal Conductivity Testing of Metal Hydride Powders & Pellets

We are also partnered with HSM Systems Inc. on the development and commercialization of metal hydride technology for advanced hydrogen storage.

Click here to download/watch the TEM insitu decomposition of alpha-alane movie (1 MB mp4v) from the paper: 'Temporal and Spatial Imaging of Hydrogen Storage Materials: Watching Solvent and Hydrogen Desorb from Aluminium Hydride by Transmission Electron Microscopy', S. D. Beattie, T. Humphries, L. Weaver and G. Sean McGrady, Chem. Comm. submitted April 29, 2008. Click here for suplimental information

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Click here to download the ESEM insitu decomposition of LiNH2+2LiH (12 MB xvid mp4) movie from the paper: 'In-situ thermal desorption of H2 from LiNH2 + 2LiH monitored by Environmental SEM' Shane Beattie, Henrietta Langmia and G. Sean McGrady, submitted to the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Sept 2008. The movie is sped up by a factor of 16X for convenient watching. The temperature of the sample is indicated on the status bar at the bottom of the image.

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Note that you need to download and install the xvid codec to play the non-flash movies. Or, download the free video player VLC with the codec already installed.