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. 2019 May 8;9:7108. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-43601-z

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The experimental pressure and temperature conditions and observed phase(s) of FeHx in this study. (a) The solid circles and open squares represent the experimental conditions of Rietveld refinement for fcc FeHx and phase observation, respectively. The yellow and blue arrows indicate the heating and cooling paths, respectively. (b) The observed phase(s) in all experimental conditions. The uncertainties in temperature are estimated to be ±50 K. The overall uncertainties in pressure are estimated to be <0.5 GPa; this includes the differences in pressure of 0.2–0.3 GPa before and after neutron diffraction measurement and experimental errors of ~0.1 GPa. Colored symbols show the observed phase(s). Gray star: bcc + dhcp + fcc, blue solid diamonds: bcc, magenta open diamonds: bcc + fcc, red solid squares/triangles: fcc (in heating/cooling paths, respectively), yellow open squares/triangles: fcc + dhcp (in heating/cooling paths, respectively), green solid circles: dhcp/hcp, light blue open circles: dhcp/hcp + bcc. The hcp phase was observed under low temperature conditions where no hydrogen was released from the hydrogen source, NH3BH3. The magenta bold line represents the phase boundary of FeHx phases obtained in this study. The green dotted line and the blue dashed line represent the phase boundaries of FeHx and Fe as reproduced from previous studies, respectively15,16,26.