Abstract
Since the 1970s, hydrogen has been considered as a possible energy carrier for the storage of renewable energy. The main focus has been on addressing the ultimate challenge: developing an environmentally friendly successor for gasoline. This very ambitious goal has not yet been fully reached, as discussed in this review, but a range of new lightweight hydrogen-containing materials has been discovered with fascinating properties. State-of-the-art and future perspectives for hydrogen-containing solids will be discussed, with a focus on metal borohydrides, which reveal significant structural flexibility and may have a range of new interesting properties combined with very high hydrogen densities. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Materials Today |
Volume | 17 |
Issue number | 3 |
Pages (from-to) | 122-128 |
ISSN | 1369-7021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- Hydrogen
- Borohydrides
- Complex hydrides
- Energy carriers
- Future perspectives
- Hydrogen densities
- Renewable energies
- Structural flexibilities
- Hydrogen storage