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Researchers show applied electric field can significantly improve hydrogen storage properties

Researchers show applied electric field can significantly improve hydrogen storage properties

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 02, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

An international team of researchers has identified a new theoretical approach that may one day make the synthesis of hydrogen fuel storage materials less complicated and improve the thermodynamics and reversibility ...


Carbon nanoballs as data storage units

Carbon nanoballs as data storage units

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (48) | comments 4

Small, smaller, "nano" data storage! Interest is growing in the use of metallofullerenes - carbon “cages” with embedded metallic compounds - as materials for miniature data storage devices. Researchers at ...


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 ...


Researchers create catalysts for use in hydrogen storage materials

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of scientists from Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and the Savannah River National Laboratory have identified that carbon nanostructures can be used as catalysts to store and ...


Revealing new applications for carbon nanomaterials in hydrogen storage

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 5

An international research team, involving Professor Rajeev Ahuja at Uppsala University and researchers in the USA, set out to understand the mechanism behind the catalytic effects of carbon nanomaterials. Experimental and ...