Hydrogen Storage
In order to store energy equivalent to that in one gasoline tank, you need more than 3000-fold the volume of the gasoline tank to store hydrogen gas at ambient pressure. Traditional H2 utilization techniques are based on liquefying H2 (high pressure or cryogenic low temperature). From thermodynamic point of view, these techniques are considered expensive. All these issues can be addressed and resolved by adopting the material-based storage technology. Therefore, the subgroup is trying to investigate new storage material such as metal hydrides, MOFs and ZIFs using novel techniques.
