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Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Jason Graetz
Affiliation:
graetz@bnl.gov, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Energy Sciences and Technology, 815 Rutherford Dr., Upton, NY, 11973, United States, 631-344-3242
James J Reilly
Affiliation:
jreillys@bnl.gov, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Energy Sciences and Technology, Upton, NY, 11973, United States
James Wegrzyn
Affiliation:
jimtheweg@bnl.gov, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Energy Sciences and Technology, Upton, NY, 11973, United States
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Abstract

The emergence of a Hydrogen Economy will require the development of new media capable of safely storing hydrogen with high gravimetric and volumetric densities. Metal hydrides and complex metal hydrides, where hydrogen is chemically bonded to the metal atoms in the bulk, offer some hope of overcoming the challenges associated with hydrogen storage. Many of the more promising hydrogen materials are tailored to meet the unique demands of a low temperature automotive fuel cell and are therefore either entirely new (e.g. in structural or chemical composition) or in some new form (e.g. morphology, crystallite size, catalysts). This proceeding presents an overview of some of the challenges associated with metal hydride hydrogen storage and a few new approaches being investigated to address these challenges.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2008

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