High Throughput Synthesis and Screening of Novel Hydrogen Storage Materials

我们希望发现固体作为高效的储气罐来储存和释放氢气，用于燃料电池(氢)汽车。目前，没有固体能够满足移动应用中氢气储存的所有严格要求/包括高存储容量和低温吸收和释放氢气/的要求。由于潜在材料的选择如此令人困惑，我们必须减少固体中可能是成分的元素的数量。我们只使用足够轻的元素来实现这一点，以便提供有效的氢气存储。即使我们只考虑元素周期表中的轻元素，例如重量小于钙的元素，仍然有非常多的族和组成仍然存在/特别是如果你考虑到在我们的商店中可能需要非常少量的重元素作为催化剂。为了抵消这种过剩的选择，我们的目标是使用理论和模型研究来提前确定有前景的储氢材料家族。然后将通过使用创新的高通量薄膜技术来生产这些材料系列并对其进行表征。结构和吸氢特性的结合将使我们能够识别每个家族中最有效的成分。一旦确定了一种成分，我们的目标是确定我们是否可以大量生产这种材料，最重要的是，它是否保持了其关键的储氢特性。为了做到这一点，我们将开发方法来合成、彻底表征和优化最有希望的组合物的克级数量。这些研究将提供必要的信息，使我们能够完善我们的理论和模型研究，从而优化我们的研究途径，并确定新的材料家族。它们还为开发商业开发所需的规模的材料合成工艺提供了重要的垫脚石。一旦候选组合物经过充分测试/并在全面的项目审查以确定我们的方法是否成功之后/我们将与我们的工业合作伙伴合作，开始工业规模的材料合成、表征和测试，以期对我们的氢气储存进行商业开发。

We wish to discover solids that act as highly efficient reservoirs to store - and release - hydrogen gas, for use in fuel cell (hydrogen) vehicles. Currently, there are no solids that will fulfil all the stringent requirements / including requirements for a high storage capacity and low temperature absorption and release of hydrogen gas / for hydrogen stores in mobile applications. Since the choice of potential materials is so bewildering, we must reduce the number elements that may be components in our solids We do this by only using elements that are light enough to give us an efficient hydrogen store. Even when we only consider the light elements of the periodic table, for example elements that weigh less than calcium, there are still very many families and compositions that remain / especially if you consider that very small amounts of heavier elements may be necessary to act as catalysts in our stores. To counteract this surfeit of choice we aim to use theoretical and modelling studies to identify in advance promising hydrogen storage materials families. These materials families will then be produced - and characterized - through the use of innovative high throughput thin film techniques. Combinations of structural and hydrogen absorption characterization will allow us to identify the most effective compositions within each family. Once a composition has been identified we aim to determine whether we can produce the material in larger quantities and / most importantly / whether it retains its key hydrogen storage properties. To do this we will develop methods to synthesize, thoroughly characterize and optimize gram scale quantities of the most promising compositions. These studies will provide essential information allowing us to refine our theoretical and modelling studies, and thus optimize our research pathways and identify new families of materials. They also provide a vital stepping stone to the development of processes for materials synthesis at a scale required for commercial exploitation. Once candidate compositions have been fully tested / and after a full project review to determine the success of our method / we will, in collaboration with our industrial partners, begin the synthesis, characterization and testing of materials on an industrial scale, with a view to commercial exploitation of our hydrogen stores.