Hiroshima University collaborates with LANL on development of hydrogen storage non-metallic materials

The Chugoku Shimbun recently reported the following:
The Hiroshima University Institute for Advanced Materials Research has entered into a department-level academic exchange agreement with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to develop non-metallic materials for hydrogen storage.
Specifically, hydrogen is stored in the form of a chemical compound of boron and nitride. The compound is light in weight and its hydrogen storage capability is large when compared with the hydrogen-storage metallic materials currently used. The amount of hydrogen that the compound can store is theoretically about 20% of the compound when calculated by weight. It is approximately 10 times of the nickel hydrogen battery. The compound, if successfully developed, will reduce the hydrogen tank in size and weight. Additional advantages are: 1) boron and nitrogen are more abundant than rare metals, and 2) easily available.
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