Handbook of Hydrogen Storage: New Materials for Future Energy Storage

Owing to the limited resources of fossil fuels, hydrogen is proposed as an alternative and environment–friendly energy carrier. However, its potential is limited by storage problems, especially for mobile applications. Current technologies, as compressed gas or liquefied hydrogen, comprise severe disadvantages and the storage of hydrogen in light–weight solids could be the solution to this problem.
Since the optimal storage mechanism and optimal material have yet to be identified, this first handbook on the topic provides an excellent overview of the most probable candidates, highlighting both their advantages as well as drawbacks.
From the contents:
∗ Physisorption
∗ Clathrates
∗ Metal hydrides
∗ Complex hydrides
∗ Amides, imides, and mixtures
∗ Destabilized systems
∗ Borazan
∗ Aluminum hydride
∗ Nanoparticles
A one–stop reference on all questions concerning hydrogen storage for physical and solid state chemists, materials scientists, chemical engineers, and physicists.

Spis treści:
Introduction
Conventional Storage
Physisorption
Clathrates
Metal hydrides
Complex hydrides
Amides, imides, and mixtures
Destabilized systems
Borazan
Aluminium hydride
Nanoparticles

Nota biograficzna:
Michael Hirscher is group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany. After studying physics at the University of Stuttgart, Germany and at the Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA, he was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society. Prior to taking his position in Stuttgart, he spent a post–doctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. He is a pioneer in the area of physisorption of hydrogen, studying the most advanced materials and revealing the limitations of carbon nanotubes.

Okładka tylna:
Owing to the limited r esources of fossil fuels, hydrogen is proposed as an alternative and environment–friendly energy carrier. However, its potential is limited by storage problems, especially for mobile applications. Current technologies, as compressed gas or liquefied hydrogen, comprise severe disadvantages and the storage of hydrogen in light–weight solids could be the solution to this problem.
Since the optimal storage mechanism and optimal material have yet to be identified, this first handbook on the topic provides an excellent overview of the most probable candidates, highlighting both their advantages as well as drawbacks.
From the contents:
∗ Physisorption
∗ Clathrates
∗ Metal hydrides
∗ Complex hydrides
∗ Amides, imides, and mixtures
∗ Destabilized systems
∗ Borazan
∗ Aluminum hydride
∗ Nanoparticles
A one–stop reference on all questions concerning hydrogen storage for physical and solid state chemists, materials scientists, chemical engineers, and physicists.