News tagged with aluminum hydride


Researchers demonstrate reversible generation of a high capacity hydrogen storage material

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory have created a reversible route to generate aluminum hydride, a high capacity hydrogen storage material. This achievement is not only expected ...





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Hydrogen cars closer to reality with new storage system design

Hydrogen cars closer to reality with new storage system design

Technology / Energy

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (16) | comments 5

Researchers have developed a critical part of a hydrogen storage system for cars that makes it possible to fill up a vehicle's fuel tank within five minutes with enough hydrogen to drive 300 miles.


The Role of Titanium in Hydrogen Storage

Physics /

created Sep 02, 2005 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

As part of ongoing research to make hydrogen a mainstream source of clean, renewable energy, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have determined how titanium atoms help hydrogen ...


Researchers solve decade-old mystery of hydrogen storage material

Chemistry /

created Feb 27, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (56) | comments 4

Environmentally friendly hydrogen gas fueled vehicles can dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lessen the country’s dependence on sources of fossil fuel. Though several hydrogen vehicles exist on the market today, ...


Scientists Find New Way to Produce Hydrogen

Scientists Find New Way to Produce Hydrogen

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (36) | comments 14

Scientists at Penn State University and the Virginia Commonwealth University have discovered a way to produce hydrogen by exposing selected clusters of aluminum atoms to water. The findings are important ...


Closing the hydrogen economic loop

Technology / Energy

created Jul 21, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (39) | comments 7

The inventor of the nickel metal hydride (NiMH) technology used for building batteries for countless portable electronic gadgets and now hybrid gas-electric cars believes the hydrogen economy is already upon us.


Synthetic catalyst mimics nature's 'hydrogen economy'

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

By creating a model of the active site found in a naturally occurring enzyme, chemists at the University of Illinois have described a catalyst that acts like nature's most pervasive hydrogen processor.


Biochemists devise method for bypassing aluminum toxicity effects in plants

Biochemists devise method for bypassing aluminum toxicity effects in plants

Biology /

created Oct 02, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Aluminum toxicity, a global agricultural problem, halts root growth in plants, severely limiting agricultural productivity for more than half of the world's arable land.


Potassium leads to better hydrogen-storage materials

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

An international research team, including Professor Rajeev Ahuja's research group at Uppsala University, has shown that small additions of potassium drastically improve the hydrogen-storage properties of certain types of ...


Improved Ion Mobility Is Key to New Hydrogen Storage Compound

Improved Ion Mobility Is Key to New Hydrogen Storage Compound

Chemistry /

created May 14, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A materials scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has deciphered the structure of a new class of materials that can store relatively large quantities of hydrogen within its crystal ...


Sandia joins forces with Boeing, Caltrans, others on fuel cell-powered mobile lighting application

Developing fuel cell-powered mobile lighting application

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sandia National Laboratories, with help from The Boeing Company, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), and others, is leading an effort to develop a commercially viable, fuel cell-powered ...



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