Recent progress on electrode characteristics of Mg and Mg-based hydrogen storage alloys

Recent development of Mg and Mg-based hydrogen storage alloys used in Ni-MH battery was discussed extensively. The results obtained from recent studies prove that these alloys with nanocrystalline/amorphous structure formed by mechanical alloying (MA) or mechanical grinding (MG) have good electrode characteristics. In general, MA or MG, and elemental substitution alloying are regarded as the effective means to seek new system of Mg-based alloys and nano-composite with improved electrode characteristics. However, until now, the currently known improvement in these electrode characteristics is still far from reach to that required for commercial application.