1. Staff:Dr David Book, [Prof Rex Harris, Dr John Speight – Honorary] Research Fellows: Dr Allan Walton (SCRA Fellow), Dr Vicky Mann, Dr Alex Bevan, Dan Reed, Sean Fletcher, Steve Tedds, [Simon Cannon – technician] PG Students: Rob Bell, Yinghe Zhang, David Brampton, Dr Ruixia Liu, Xiaodong Yi, Dan Amos, Lydia Pickering, James Warren, George Simpson, Peter Abell, Zhuo Wang Hydrogen Materials Group (www.hydrogen.bham.ac.uk)

2. Materials Synthesis High-pressure ball-mill (100 bar) Melt-spinning system (alloy quenching) Magnetron sputtering system (thin-film preparation) High-pressure hydrogenation rig (700 bar) Materials Characterisation 2 x Sieverts Volumetric PCT system (200 bar) 3 x constant-pressure TGAs – Hiden IGAs (20 bar) DSC (100 bar) 1000°C TGA (1 bar) Confocal Laser Microscope X-ray Diffractometer with 2 H 2 pressure cells (& mass spec) Dispersive Raman spectrometer with 2 H 2 cells (high & low temp)

3. www.hydrogen.bham.ac.uk “Pd membranes provide < 1 ppb purity with any gas quality” - JM Hydrogen Separation Membranes PEM Fuel Cells are poisioned by: CO > 10 ppm, and Sulphur at ~1 ppb Research into combined hydrocarbon reformation / separation reactors New Pd-Y, Pd-Cu based alloys Thin-film composites constructed

4. www.hydrogen.bham.ac.uk Complex Hydrides: poor reversibility LiBH 4 500 Magnesium Porous Materials Carbon nanoC LaNi 5

5. TEM (60 hrs milled) 100 nm Hydrogen absorption 300 ° C,10 bar

6. www.hydrogen.bham.ac.uk Hydrogen Isotherms for MOF Cu-BTC (BASF) 77 K S. Tedds, A. Walton, D. Book 131 K

7. END www.hydrogen.bham.ac.uk

8. “Chemical and Physical Solutions for Hydrogen Storage”, U. Eberle, M. Felderhoff, F. Schüth, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 48, pp.2 – 25, 2009 Weight of energy storage systems to take a car 500 km

9. Solid-state Hydrogen Storage Andreas Züttel, Switzerland, 9/1/2014 9 4 kg hydrogen 110l 57l 33l 26l Mg 2 FeH 6 LaNi 5 H 6 H 2 (liquid) H 2 (200 bar) Louis Schlapbach & Andreas Züttel, NATURE, 414, p.353, (2001)

10. www.hydrogen.bham.ac.uk HYDROGEN DENSITY Ref: A. Züttel, “Materials for hydrogen storage”, Materials Today, September (2003), pp. 18-27 H cov HH H2H2

11. www.hydrogen.bham.ac.uk A. Zuettel, A. Borgschulte, Int. Symp. on H 2 Energy, Richmond, USA, 12-15 Nov 2007

12. www.hydrogen.bham.ac.uk EPSRC SUPERGEN “UK Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Consortium” (Apr 03 - Apr 11) (inc. Bham-Chem, Nott-Mat, Nott-Chem, UCL, Oxford, STFC, Bath, Glasgow, Salford) EC FP6 “Novel Efficient Solid Storage for Hydrogen” (Jan 06 - Dec 10) (inc. Daimler, JM, Air Liquide, Max Planck, CNRS, NCSRD, EMPA, Delft,…) “Polymer-based Hydrogen Storage Materials” (July 06 - July 10) with Cardiff Uni (Neil McKeown), Manchester Uni (Peter Budd) “Supply Chain Research Applied To Clean Hydrogen (SCRATCH)” (Apr 07 - Apr 10) ChemEng (Kevin Kendall), Biosci (Lynne Macaskie), Econ (Richard Green), Met&Mat (David Book) Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform / TSB (Dec 06 - May 09) “Hydrogen Permeable Novel Membranes” (HYPNOMEM) Research Projects & Networks AWM Science City “Hydrogen Energy Project” (April 07 - March 09) £6.3M for equipment for Birmingham and Warwick Universities EPSRC SUPERGEN “Delivery of Sustainable Hydrogen” (Oct 08 - Oct 12) (inc. St Andrews, Leeds, Warwick, Imperial, Cambridge, Manchester, Cardiff Uni’s) “UK-Japan Hydrogen Storage Research Network” (Apr 07- May 09) Workshops for Universities / National Labs in the UK & Japan DIUS / FCO “UK/KOREA Focal Point Programme for H2 Storage” (Apr 07 - Apr 09) Workshops for Universities in the UK & Korea International Energy Agency Task 22 (2002-06, 2006-10, …) “Fundamental and applied hydrogen storage materials development”

13. www.hydrogen.bham.ac.uk PCT curves of the Ti(1−x)VxMn alloys at 293 K. M. Shibuya et al.JALCOM 466 (2008) p.558 New Metal Hydrides for Hybrid “High-Pressure / Hydride” Stores

14. www.hydrogen.bham.ac.uk Andreas Züttel, University of Fribourg, 15.12.200225 COMPLEX HYDRIDES Examples: NaAlH 4 Mg(AlH 4 ) 2 LiBH 4 Mg(BH 4 ) 2 Al(BH 4 ) 3 +-

15. www.hydrogen.bham.ac.uk 2NaBH 4 + ZnCl 2 Zn(BH 4 ) 2 + 2NaCl - NO i) As-Received M(BH 4 ) n (M=Li, Ca,…) TGA & MS for 2NaBH 4 + ZnCl 2 Milled for 60 min ii) Metathesis M(BH 4 ) n (M=Zn, Mn…) 5NaBH 4 + 2ZnCl 2 NaZn 2 (BH 4 ) 5 + 4NaCl