화학공학소재연구정보센터
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol.24, No.9, 819-824, 1999
The hydrogen diffusion in disordered systems
This paper analyzes the experimental data and presents a critical review of the existing approaches to the description of hydrogen diffusion in disordered amorphous alloys. It is noted that the available theories ignore the role of the short-range order in hydrogen diffusion. A diffusion model, which is based on the approach developed by us earlier, has been proposed for disordered crystalline alloys. In terms of this model specific features of the amorphous state are allowed for by homogeneous local distortions of voids, i.e, a kind of 'frozen' fluctuations of the free volume. General expressions for the chemical diffusion coefficient of hydrogen in amorphous metals and binary alloys having FCC-like short-range crystalline order have been derived. It was shown that the diffusion coefficient may depend on a structural characteristic of disordered systems-the mean square of static displacement of atoms in the vicinity of a void-and also on the paired radial distribution function of atoms. The analysis of the proposed model suggests that the crystalline disorder causes an increase in the diffusion coefficient, which grows (unlike in crystals) linearly with the hydrogen concentration.