(Invited) Development and Understanding of Advanced Materials for Hydrogen Storage and Delivery

Abstract

Continued efforts to advance hydrogen storage and delivery require development and validation of efficient materials platforms coupled with mechanistic understanding of storage and conversion of hydrogen or its carriers. The Hydrogen Materials Advanced Research Consortium (HyMARC) is working with the research community to provide cutting-edge materials development advanced characterization, and theoretical modeling in support of these efforts, leveraging multiple U.S. Department of Energy national labs and their user facilities. Within this program, Berkeley Lab is developing stable and efficient solutions to hydrogen storage involving nanoscale encapsulation, and boosts to the conversion efficiency for liquid organic carriers through the development of single-atom catalyst platforms. The Molecular Foundry and The Advanced Light Source at Berkeley Lab provide deep insight into our materials advances through first-principles modeling of atomic and electronic structure, and X-ray spectroscopy of evolving materials systems at high temperatures and pressures.