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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Materials Science and Engineering Volume 2010, Article ID 138642, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2010/138642 Research Article Effects of Ti-Based Additives on the Hydrogen Storage Properties of a LiBH4/CaH2 Destabilized System Hongwei Yang, Adeola Ibikunle, and Andrew J. Goudy Department of Chemistry, Delaware State University, Dover, DE 19901, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Andrew J. Goudy, agoudy@ Received 26 May 2010; Accepted 5 August 2010 Academic Editor: Jacques Huot Copyright © 2010 Hongwei Yang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The hydrogen storage properties of a destabilized LiBH /CaH system ball-milled with TiCl , TiF , and TiO additives have 4 2 3 3 2 been investigated. It is found that the system with TiCl3 additive has a lower dehydrogenation temperature than the ones with other additives. Further study shows that a higher amount of TiCl3 is more effective in reducing the desorption temperature of the LiBH4 /CaH2 system, since it leads to a lower activation energy of dehydrogenation. The activations energies for mixtures containing 4, 10, and 25 mol% of TiCl3 are 141, 126, and 110 kJ/mol, respectively. However, the benefits of higher amounts of TiCl3 are offset by a larger reduction in hydrogen capacity of the mixtures. 1. Introduction hydrogen storage is the destabilization of LiBH4 using CaH2