%0 journal article
%@ 0360-3199
%A Boesenberg, U., Pistidda, C., Tolkiehn, M., Busch, N., Saldan, I., Suarez-Alcantara, K., Arendarska, A., Klassen, T., Dornheim, M.

%D 2014
%J International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
%N 18
%P 9899-9903 
%R doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.02.068
%T Characterization of metal hydrides by in-situ XRD
%U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.02.068
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%X In-situ synchrotron radiation powder X-ray diffraction (SR-PXD) technique is a powerful tool to gain a deeper understanding of reaction mechanisms in crystalline materials. In this paper, the implementation of a new in-situ SR-PXD cell for solid–gas reactions is described in detail. The cell allows performing measurements in a range of pressure which goes from light vacuum (10−2 bar) up to 200 bar and temperatures from room temperature up to 550 °C. The high precision, with which pressure and temperature are measured, enables to estimate the thermodynamic properties of the observed changes in the crystal structure and phase transformations.