Nanostructured hydrogen storage materials for offshore green hydrogen

氢为快速发展的海上可再生能源行业提供了一种出色的储能解决方案。将氢储存在金属容器中是一种比压缩气体或液态氢更紧凑的储存介质，将大大简化海上制氢平台所需的氢气工厂。材料方面的挑战是增加合金的容量，并使金属氢化物对海水电解产生的潜在杂质更具耐受性。这个博士项目是英国一个主要合作项目的一部分，将与我们在纽卡斯尔大学的电解质合作伙伴密切合作。我们的合作伙伴将提供建议的杂质，氢存储可能会遇到。这个博士项目将研究新的方法，以提高金属氧化物对这些杂质的耐受性，并增加存储容量。该研究将调查涂层，纳米封装和化学改性，以改善氢化物材料。成功的候选人将在一个充满活力的多学科研究小组中工作，我们拥有的专业知识涵盖了新材料的发现，通过金属氢化物存储的设计和应用。该项目将使用各种材料合成技术来生产新的金属氧化物，自上而下和自下而上的纳米结构，材料表征和储氢性能测试。除了在国际会议上展示工作外，该项目还将包括对我们的纽卡斯尔合作伙伴的研究访问和对工业合作伙伴的访问

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