Nanostructured MgH2 obtained by cold rolling combined with short-time high-energy ball milling

MgH2 was processed by short time high-energy ball milling (BM) and cold rolling (CR). A new alternative processing route (CR + BM) using the combination of CR followed by short time BM step was also applied. The effects on the final morphology, crystalline structure and H-sorption properties were evaluated. The CR + BM processing (compared to BM and CR process) resulted in an inhomogeneous particle size distribution and the biggest crystallite size of MgH2, showing that there is a clear dependence between the size/shape of the particles which compose the starting material and the efficiency of...