Challenges and Opportunities for the UK in Moving Towards a Low-Carbon Future

氢气前景世界正面临着最大的挑战，为了避免气候灾难，必须减少二氧化碳排放。氢系统将在我们的低碳未来发挥关键作用，然而，它们的商业化开发还有许多障碍需要克服。引领我们走向这一未来的创新之路将在于短期内开发和推向市场的利基和/或混合系统。这将使氢系统成为一项可行的技术，并为氢技术更广泛地融入我们的日常生活铺平道路，从个人电子设备到固定后备电力系统和最具挑战性的应用/汽车。在诺丁汉，我们拥有专利的储氢材料，我们热衷于研究和开发早期推向市场的氢气技术。这项建议将：导致这项研究的重大进展；导致利用这些材料的创新解决方案；促进我自己对潜在氢未来的路线图的更深入了解，从而及早发现市场机会；并加深我对更广泛的低碳技术领域的理解。机遇碳愿景倡议旨在支持杰出的科学家和工程师成为低碳研究的世界领先者。这项提议将有助于发展私人投资的领导属性，并将在诺丁汉进行的创新研究推向商业化。对于在低碳研究领域工作的成功的年轻学者来说，这是一个令人兴奋的职业发展机会。为了加强专业知识的广度和深度，已经确定了以下优先事项：-扩大国际领先的低碳技术研究组合-加深对更广泛的低碳研究领域的挑战和机会的了解(例如，技术挑战和商业化障碍)-与来自学术界和行业的全球领导者建立一个广泛的网络，涉及一系列相关技术。-向利益相关者传播低碳研究成果和机会

Hydrogen VisionThe world is facing its greatest challenge, in order to avert a climate catastrophe, CO2 emissions must be reduced. Hydrogen systems will play a key role in our low carbon future, however, there are many barriers to their commercial exploitation which need to be overcome. The innovation path leading us to this future will consist in the short term of developing and bringing to market niche and/or hybrid systems. This will establish hydrogen systems as a viable technology and pave the way for more widespread incorporation of hydrogen technology in our everyday life, from personal electronic equipment to stationary back-up power systems and the most challenging application / automobiles. At Nottingham we have patented hydrogen storage materials which we are keen to research and develop for early-to-market hydrogen technologies. This proposal will: lead to a major advance in this research; leading to innovative solutions for exploiting these materials; facilitate my own deeper understanding of the roadmap to potential hydrogen futures, thereby identifying early to market opportunities; and deepen my understanding of the broader low carbon technology field.The OpportunityThe Carbon Vision Initiative aims to support outstanding scientists and engineers as they become world leaders in low-carbon research. This proposal will help develop the leadership attributes of the PI and take the innovative research undertaken at Nottingham forward towards commercialisation . This is an exciting opportunity to develop the career of a successful young academic working in a field of low-carbon research. In order to enhance the PI's breadth and depth of expertise, the following priorities have been identified:- to expand portfolio of internationally leading research in low-carbon technology- to build-up understanding of the challenges and opportunities in the broader low-carbon research area (e.g. technological challenges and barriers to commercialisation)- to establish an extensive network with global leaders from academia and industry across a range of relevant technologies.- the dissemination of low-carbon research outcomes and opportunities to stakeholders