For the daily use of hydrogen storage materials, not only their intrinsic storage properties are important, but also equally important is the performance under practical conditions. Besides the techniques already available for the fundamental characterization of storage materials, there is a growing need to test storage materials under conditions resembling day-to-day use. For that we developed...

Liquid CBN (carbon-boron-nitrogen) hydrogen-storage materials such as 3-methyl-1,2-BN-cyclopentane have the advantage of being easily accessible for use in current liquid-fuel infrastructure. To develop practical liquid CBN hydrogen-storage materials, it is of great importance to understand the reaction pathways of hydrogenation/dehydrogenation in the liquid phase, which are difficult to discov...

potassium alanate is one of the goal candidates for hydrogen storage during past decades. in this report, initially the density functional theory was applied to simulate the electronic and structural characteristic of the experimentally known kalh4 complex hydride. the relaxation of unit cell parameters and atomic positions was performed until the total residual force reduced less than 0.001ev ...

Thermal Energy Storage using phase change materials has become an interesting area of energy research because of its high energy storage density, isothermal nature of storage process and small volume changes. There are wide ranges of phase change materials available commercially. This work deals with paraffin and Palmitic acid eutectic mixture in three different proportions as phase change mate...

This project aims to develop new porous hydrogen storage materials which utilize molecular chemisorption of hydrogen rather than mere physisorption, and ultimately do this in low weight hybrid materials. Stronger binding of hydrogen should result in greater capacity and lower operating pressures at room temperature. These studies should lead to the design and synthesis of hydrogen storage mater...

We propose new isoreticular metal-organic framework (IRMOF) materials to increase the hydrogen storage capacity at room temperature. Based on the potential-energy surface of hydrogen molecules on IRMOF linkers and the interaction energy between hydrogen molecules, we estimate the saturation value of hydrogen sorption capacity at room temperature. We discuss design criteria and propose new IRMOF...