{"id":142505,"date":"2022-07-19T14:46:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/mechanochemical-breakthrough-unlocks-cheap-safe-powdered-hydrogen"},"modified":"2022-07-19T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:46:10","slug":"mechanochemical-breakthrough-unlocks-cheap-safe-powdered-hydrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/mechanochemical-breakthrough-unlocks-cheap-safe-powdered-hydrogen","title":{"rendered":"Mechanochemical breakthrough unlocks cheap, safe, powdered hydrogen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mechanochemical-breakthrough-unlocks-cheap-safe-powdered-hydrogen2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australian scientists say they\u2019ve made a \u201ceureka moment\u201d breakthrough in gas separation and storage that could radically reduce energy use in the petrochemical industry, while making hydrogen much easier and safer to store and transport in a powder.<\/p>\n<p>Nanotechnology researchers, based at Deakin University\u2019s Institute for Frontier Materials, claim to have found a super-efficient way to mechanochemically trap and hold gases in powders, with potentially enormous and wide-ranging industrial implications.<\/p>\n<p>Mechanochemistry is a relatively <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/chemistry\/ball-milling\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">recently coined term<\/a>, referring to chemical reactions that are triggered by mechanical forces as opposed to heat, light, or electric potential differences. In this case, the mechanical force is supplied by ball milling \u2013 a low-energy grinding process in which a cylinder containing steel balls is rotated such that the balls roll up the side, then drop back down again, crushing and rolling over the material inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian scientists say they\u2019ve made a \u201ceureka moment\u201d breakthrough in gas separation and storage that could radically reduce energy use in the petrochemical industry, while making hydrogen much easier and safer to store and transport in a powder. Nanotechnology researchers, based at Deakin University\u2019s Institute for Frontier Materials, claim to have found a super-efficient way [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}