New Class Of Hydrogen Storage Materials
By Nick May 21, 2008
Hui Wu, a scientist from the University of Maryland collaborated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to discover a new class of materials that can store large amounts of hydrogen into its crystal structure for later release.
Hydrogen is an abundant element as is viewed as the perfect fuel of the next generation. But to use it as car fuel, researchers must find a way to safely and economically transport the highly flammable gas. The new class of materials can trap hydrogen at normal pressure, and can be released afterwards by heating them at relatively high temperatures.
The only flaw of the system is that both containing and releasing the hydrogen produce a toxic substance, ammonia. In the future, environmentalists will probably begin to stop worrying about the CO2 level in the atmosphere and start complaining about ammonia levels.
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