1 year, 11 months ago
How is the graphite material being used to store and release hydrogen on demand? Has the energy storage problem been solved?
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Now, however, John Tse (now at the University of Saskatchewan) and colleagues at the Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences in Canada and the Technical University of Dresden in Germany have reanalyzed graphite using mathematical models. They found that previous studies did not take into account the interactions between carbon and hydrogen on the quantum scale, which led to misleading conclusions for the absorption capacity of this material. Including such interactions involves solving the Schrödinger equation for the motion of the hydrogen atoms on the complicated potential energy surface of graphite.
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https://www1.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/storage/hydrogen_storage.html
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/22689
Now, however, John Tse (now at the University of Saskatchewan) and colleagues at the Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences in Canada and the Technical University of Dresden in Germany have reanalyzed graphite using mathematical models. They found that previous studies did not take into account the interactions between carbon and hydrogen on the quantum scale, which led to misleading conclusions for the absorption capacity of this material. Including such interactions involves solving the Schrödinger equation for the motion of the hydrogen atoms on the complicated potential energy surface of graphite.
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https://www1.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/storage/hydrogen_storage.html
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/22689
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