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Joint Azeri-Ukrainian Technology Development of Hydrogen-Storing Nanostructural Carbons(22/37) Nanostructural carbon materials can accumulate large amounts of hydrogen. This capacity opens new possibilities of hydrogen use in devices such as hydrogen-based fuel cells. However, nanotube saturation with hydrogen requires large amounts of input energy. To produce fullerene hydrids with the needed hydrogen sorption properties, most of current methods are expensive and do not provide sufficient cyclic stability.
To address this problem, the Azerbaijan Space Agency and the I.M. Frantsevich Institue for Problems of Materials Science (Kyiv) undertook a joint STCU project (Project #AZ-02) to study 30-40 types of metal-carbon alloys used for synthesis of nanostructural carbon hydrides, in order to optimize the hydrogenation of these compositions. Results of this research will be used to develop a model of a portable hydrogen accumulator usable in miniaturefuel cells.