{"id":209044,"date":"2025-03-18T13:26:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T18:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/organic-supramolecular-crystals-with-high-hydrogen-storage-performance-could-enhance-fuel-cell-vehicle-efficiency"},"modified":"2025-03-18T13:26:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T18:26:27","slug":"organic-supramolecular-crystals-with-high-hydrogen-storage-performance-could-enhance-fuel-cell-vehicle-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/organic-supramolecular-crystals-with-high-hydrogen-storage-performance-could-enhance-fuel-cell-vehicle-efficiency","title":{"rendered":"Organic supramolecular crystals with high hydrogen storage performance could enhance fuel-cell vehicle efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/organic-supramolecular-crystals-with-high-hydrogen-storage-performance-could-enhance-fuel-cell-vehicle-efficiency.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hydrogen is often seen as the fuel of the future on account of its zero-emission and high gravimetric energy density, meaning it stores more energy per unit of mass compared to gasoline. Its low volumetric density, however, means it takes up a large amount of space, posing challenges for efficient storage and transport.<\/p>\n<p>In order to address these deficiencies, hydrogen must be compressed in tanks to 700-bar pressure, which is extremely high. This situation not only incurs <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/high+costs\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high costs<\/a> but also raises safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>For hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicles (FCVs) to become widespread, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has set specific targets for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/hydrogen+storage+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hydrogen storage systems<\/a>: 6.5% of the storage material\u2019s weight should be hydrogen (gravimetric storage capacity of 6.5 wt%), and one liter of storage material should hold 50 grams of hydrogen (a volumetric storage capacity of 50 g L<sup>\u20121<\/sup>). These targets ensure that vehicles can travel reasonable distances without excessive fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrogen is often seen as the fuel of the future on account of its zero-emission and high gravimetric energy density, meaning it stores more energy per unit of mass compared to gasoline. Its low volumetric density, however, means it takes up a large amount of space, posing challenges for efficient storage and transport. In order [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209044","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}