Hydrogen, fuel cells and their application

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Novel solid state hydrogen storage materials.Main problem with hydrogen is hydrogen storage because of its very low volumetric energy density, it is being 2700 times less energy dense than gasoline. 1 litre storage will only store 0.03 g of hydrogen at normal pressure. Even storing at 150 bars only retains 10 g/L of hydrogen. Storage at this pressure is very unsafe and hazardous .As per US DOE 2020 targets volumetric capacity of 40 g/L at a pressure lower than 12 bar is required which is still not obtained by any conventional method. The solution is material based storage. Hydrogen can be more effectively stored in solid porous materials like ammonia borane, metal amidoboranes, metal hydrides etc.This project will synthesise new hydrogen rich materials and investigate their potential as hydrogen storage materials."