Hydrogen, fuel cells and their application

新型固态储氢材料。氢的主要问题是储氢，因为它的体积能量密度非常低，比汽油的能量密度低2700倍。1升的储存器在正常压力下只能储存0.03克氢气。即使在150巴下储存，也只能保留10 g/L的氢气。根据美国能源部2020年的目标，在低于12巴的压力下，需要40克/升的体积容量，这仍然不是通过任何传统方法获得的。解决方案是基于材料的存储。氢可以更有效地储存在固体多孔材料中，如氨硼烷，金属氨基硼烷，金属氢化物等。本项目将合成新的富氢材料，并研究它们作为储氢材料的潜力。"

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."