Carbon Nanofibers as a Hydrogen Storage Medium for Fuel Cell Applications in the Transportation Sector

In the push to replace fossil fuels and their conversion into energy via the internal combustion engine with cleaner and more renewable energy sources for the transportation sector, hydrogen and the fuel cell have emerged as the best candidates for the future. Hydrogen is readily available in near limitless quantities and produces only water and heat as a byproduct when reacted with oxygen. While hydrogen can be generated on-board a vehicle by reforming methanol or other hydrocarbons, a cleaner approach is to store pure hydrogen on-board the vehicle without any reforming process required. In an obvious acknowledgement of this and in pursuit of the goal to reduce the country's dependence on