{"id":175507,"date":"2023-11-06T12:25:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T18:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/this-startup-hopes-its-nanomaterial-fuel-tanks-will-jumpstart-the-hydrogen-revolution"},"modified":"2023-11-06T12:25:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T18:25:57","slug":"this-startup-hopes-its-nanomaterial-fuel-tanks-will-jumpstart-the-hydrogen-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/this-startup-hopes-its-nanomaterial-fuel-tanks-will-jumpstart-the-hydrogen-revolution","title":{"rendered":"This Startup Hopes Its Nanomaterial Fuel Tanks Will Jumpstart The Hydrogen Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-startup-hopes-its-nanomaterial-fuel-tanks-will-jumpstart-the-hydrogen-revolution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hydrogen is a promising form of carbon-free energy, but moving and storing the superlight element is costly and energy-intensive. So a California startup cofounded in 2022 by two leading chemists, including a Nobel laureate, is designing a new type of tank made with nanomaterials that aims to be cheaper and safer than any currently in use \u2014 and hold more hydrogen, too.<\/p>\n<p>Irvine, California-based H2MOF hopes to sell its next-generation hydrogen tanks sometime after 2024 to heavy-duty vehicle makers with plans to offer zero-emission fuel cell vehicles. It argues that in addition to holding fuel inside the vehicles, these tanks will also provide a better way to ship the fuel by truck or train as\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>H2MOF thinks nanomaterials designed to hold hydrogen at low pressure like a sponge absorbing water are a cheaper, more efficient way to store the elemental fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrogen is a promising form of carbon-free energy, but moving and storing the superlight element is costly and energy-intensive. So a California startup cofounded in 2022 by two leading chemists, including a Nobel laureate, is designing a new type of tank made with nanomaterials that aims to be cheaper and safer than any currently in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175507","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}