Hydrogen breakthrough could open the road to carbon-free cars

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Illustration showing how hydrogen atoms are absorbed into the new storage material. Hydrogen atoms are shown in green lithium atoms in dark grey nitrogen atoms in blue and boron atoms in grey. Credit: University of Oxford
Illustration showing how hydrogen atoms are absorbed into the new storage material. Hydrogen atoms are shown in green, lithium atoms in dark grey, nitrogen atoms in blue and boron atoms in grey. Credit: University of Oxford

A new breakthrough in hydrogen storage technology could remove a key barrier to widespread uptake of non-polluting cars that produce no carbon dioxide emissions.


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