{"id":34863,"date":"2017-02-25T02:24:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T10:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/nano-sized-hydrogen-storage-system-increases-efficiency"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:11:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:11:41","slug":"nano-sized-hydrogen-storage-system-increases-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/nano-sized-hydrogen-storage-system-increases-efficiency","title":{"rendered":"Nano-sized hydrogen storage system increases efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nano-sized-hydrogen-storage-system-increases-efficiency.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Lawrence Livermore scientists have collaborated with an interdisciplinary team of researchers including colleagues from Sandia National Laboratories to develop an efficient hydrogen storage system that could be a boon for hydrogen powered vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Hydrogen is an excellent energy carrier, but the development of lightweight solid-state materials for compact, low-pressure storage is a huge challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Complex metal hydrides are a promising class of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hydrogen+storage\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hydrogen storage<\/a> materials, but their viability is usually limited by slow hydrogen uptake and release. Nanoconfinement\u2014infiltrating the metal hydride within a matrix of another material such as carbon\u2014can, in certain instances, help make this process faster by shortening diffusion pathways for hydrogen or by changing the thermodynamic stability of the material.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-02-nano-sized-hydrogen-storage-efficiency.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;02-nano-sized-hydrogen-storage-efficiency.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice. Lawrence Livermore scientists have collaborated with an interdisciplinary team of researchers including colleagues from Sandia National Laboratories to develop an efficient hydrogen storage system that could be a boon for hydrogen powered vehicles. Hydrogen is an excellent energy carrier, but the development of lightweight solid-state materials for compact, low-pressure storage is a huge challenge. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34863","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\/34863","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58601,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34863\/revisions\/58601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}