Historical trends have shown gradual decarbonization of our fuel sources over hundreds of years, the ultimate endpoint of which is hydrogen.  Hydrogen fuel cell applications offer safe, emissions-free energy and all of the major auto manufacturers have made commitments to the technology.  However, despite this technological push, there remain fundamental scientific issues that have delayed widespread adoption of the technology.  In this talk, I’ll discuss ongoing work in my group to develop hybrid nanomaterials approaches to safe, energy-dense, and reversible hydrogen storage in metallic Magnesium nanocrystals and 2D hybrids.  I will specifically highlight advances toward room-temperature storage and the atomic limit of selective encapsulation.

Fueling the future: Safe, dense, reversible hydrogen storage in hybrid nanomaterials

249th National Meeting (2015)

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