Reply to 'Comments on "Evidence of the hydrogen release mechanism in bulk MgH2"'

Kazuhiro Nogita; Xuan Q Tran; Tomokazu Yamamoto; Eishi Tanaka; Stuart D McDonald; Christopher M Gourlay; Kazuhiro Yasuda; Syo Matsumura

doi:10.1038/srep43720

Reply to 'Comments on "Evidence of the hydrogen release mechanism in bulk MgH₂"'

Sci Rep. 2017 Apr 7:7:43720. doi: 10.1038/srep43720.

Authors

Kazuhiro Nogita^{1

2}, Xuan Q Tran¹, Tomokazu Yamamoto², Eishi Tanaka², Stuart D McDonald¹, Christopher M Gourlay³, Kazuhiro Yasuda², Syo Matsumura²

Affiliations

¹ Nihon Superior Centre for the Manufacture of Electronic Materials, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
² Department of Applied Quantum Physics and Nuclear Engineering and the Ultramicroscopy Research Center, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan.
³ Department of Materials, Imperial College, London. SW7 2AZ. UK.

Abstract

In a comment on our Article "Evidence of the hydrogen release mechanism in bulk MgH₂", Surrey et al. assert that the MgH₂ sample we studied was not MgH₂ at any time but rather MgO; and that the transformation we observed was the formation of Kirkendall voids due to the outward diffusion of Mg. We address these issues in this reply.

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