Nanostructured hydrogen storage materials for offshore green hydrogen

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Hydrogen offers an excellent energy storage solution for the rapidly expanding offshore renewablessector. Storing hydrogen in metal hydrides is a more compact storage medium than either compressedgas or liquid hydrogen and will greatly simplify the hydrogen plant needed on an offshore hydrogengeneration platform. The material challenges are to increase the capacity of the alloys and to makethe metal hydride more tolerant to potential impurities from the electrolysis of seawater.This PhD project is part of a major UK collaboration and will be working closely with our electrolyserpartner at Newcastle University. Our partner will be advising on the impurities that a hydrogen storemay experience. This PhD project will be investigating novel methods to improve the tolerance of metalhydrides to these impurities as well as increasing storage capacities. The research will investigatecoatings, nano-encapsulation, and chemical modification to improve the hydride materials.The successful candidate will work within a vibrant multidisciplinary research group, where we haveexpertise covering the discovery of new materials through to the design and application of metalhydride stores. The project will use a variety of material synthesis techniques to produce new metal hydrides, top-down and bottom-up nanostructuring, materials characterisation and hydrogen storage performance testing. In addition to presenting work at international conferences, the project will involve research visits to our Newcastle partner and visits to the industrial partners