Coordination Polymers and Oligomers and Labyrinthine Molecular Solids as Materials for the Sorption of Gases/Vapours, with Emphasis on Hydrogen

这项工作将提供新型的气体吸附固体，这可能会在气体的分离和存储以及催化中找到实际应用。氢气几乎是完美的、无污染的燃料；澳大利亚充足的阳光可能会使它变得便宜，在这里很容易买到。在容易获得和维持的压力下储存氢的安全和经济手段的缺乏，仍然是未来许多氢动力设备生存的主要障碍，如手机、笔记本电脑、无线工具和车辆。拟议的工作将有助于开发安全、高效和便携式的氢气存储系统。

The work will afford new types of gas sorbing solids, which may find practical uses in the separation and storage of gases and in catalysis. Hydrogen is almost the perfect, pollution-free fuel; Australia's abundant sunlight potentially makes it cheap and readily available here. The lack of a safe and economic means of storing hydrogen at easily achieved and maintained pressures remains the chief obstacle to the viability of numerous hydrogen-powered devices of the future such as cell phones, laptop computers, cordless tools and vehicles. The work proposed will contribute to the development of safe, efficient, and portable hydrogen storage systems.