Time：March 3rd（Monday）10:00 a.m.
Location：Energy Building 1# 1st floor meeting room
Lecturer：Etsuo Akiba
Kyushu University
Introduction：
Professor of Department of mechanical engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Lead of the Hydrogen Storage Material Division and Principal Investigator of the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I2CNER), Kyushu University.
1974 B.S., Department of Chemistry, Saitama University, Japan
1979 Ph.D. in Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Abstract：
In 1996 at the International Symposium on Hydrogen-Metal Systems held in Switzerland, Boris Bogdanovic firstly reported cyclable reactions of NaAlH4 with Ti doping. This is the dawn of the so-called “complex hydrides” but at the very beginning of the history these types of materials were not called as complex hydrides.
Metal complex or coordinate complex are well known and can be found in any of chemistry textbooks. The “complex hydride” is different type of materials to these two. Personally, from chemistry point of view these materials cannot be called as complex. In addition, it is quite worse that it has not had a clear definition yet.
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