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Metal Hydride Nanoparticle Charging Kinetics

Watch a metal-hydride nanoparticle hydrogenate from the outside in: pick a material, particle radius and temperature and see the shrinking-core diffusion model predict how fast the hydride shell consumes the unreacted metal core.

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Metal hydride nanoparticles store hydrogen by reacting it at the particle surface and letting a hydride shell grow inward as hydrogen diffuses through the material already converted. This simulator renders that shrinking-core process in 3D: a metal core (grey) shrinks as a hydride shell (teal) thickens around it, exactly as predicted by the Ginstling–Brounshtein diffusion-controlled kinetics equation. Choose a hydride material, drag the particle-radius and bed-temperature sliders, and watch how nanoscaling and catalysis — the two real strategies hydrogen-storage engineers use — can cut charging time from hours to seconds.

⚙ Under the hood

Watch a metal-hydride nanoparticle hydrogenate from the outside in: pick a material, particle radius and temperature and see the shrinking-core diffusion model predict how nanoscaling and catalysis cut hydrogen-storage charging time by orders of magnitude.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install