Use aluminum as a layer to cover the titanium surface to store hyrdo

Yves Chabal of the University of Texas at San Francisco, USA, and researcher Santanu Chaudhuri, Washington State University, have discovered that using titanium aluminum to store and transport hydrogen is more economical. and easier.

The results of this study have been published online in the journal Nature Materials.

By coating the aluminum surface on Titanium metal, to facilitate a catalytic reaction: breaking hydrogen molecules into individual hydrogen atoms, to create a durable hydrogen fuel storage system. Belgium at an affordable price.

In nature, hydrogen exists in the form of hydrogen molecules (including two hydrogen atoms) and requires storage under extreme pressure and at very low temperatures; So we can not use hydrogen as a source of fuel for cars or power to a house.

Precious metals, such as platinum, are used as a catalyst to break the chemical bonds between two hydrogen atoms. However, the use of platinum is too expensive and unrealistic because of the scarcity of precious metals.

"The results have shown, for the first time, that aluminum doped aluminum can activate hydrogen in ways that could be compared to the effects of expensive and rare metals such as palladium and Other near-surface alloys include: similar rare metals and similar metal alloy models , " Chaudhuri explained.

Titan's role is to promote the formation of bonds between: hydrogen and aluminum to form aluminum hydride. If used as a storage device for hydrogen fuel: aluminum hydride releases hydrogen (by simply increasing the temperature).