High Throughput Synthesis and Screening of Novel Hydrogen Storage Materials

我们希望发现一种固体，可以作为高效的储层来储存和释放氢气，用于燃料电池（氢）汽车。目前，还没有固体能够满足所有严格的要求/包括对高存储容量和低温吸收和释放氢气/用于移动应用中的氢气存储的要求。由于潜在材料的选择是如此令人困惑，我们必须减少固体中可能构成成分的元素的数量。为此，我们只使用足够轻的元素，以便有效地储存氢。即使我们只考虑元素周期表上的轻元素，例如比钙轻的元素，仍然有很多家族和成分存在/特别是如果你考虑到我们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建模研究来提前确定有前途的储氢材料家族。然后，这些材料家族将通过使用创新的高通量薄膜技术来生产和表征。结合结构和氢吸收特性将使我们能够确定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，它是否能保持其关键的储氢性能。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前途的组合物的克尺度数量。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建模研究，从而优化我们的研究途径并确定新的材料家族。它们还为商业开发所需规模的材料合成工艺的发展提供了重要的垫脚石。一旦候选成分被充分测试/经过全面的项目审查以确定我们的方法是否成功/我们将与我们的工业合作伙伴合作，开始在工业规模上合成、表征和测试材料，以期我们的氢储存的商业开发。

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.