Can Buckyballs Store Hydrogen?
Friday, March 21, 2008
"The molecules can store around 8 percent of their weight in hydrogen at room temperature, Rice found. The federal government, meanwhile, has set a goal of finding materials that can store 6 percent of its weight in hydrogen. The density of the hydrogen is about the same density that hydrogen would be held at the center of Jupiter. "Based on our calculations, it appears that some buckyballs are capable of holding volumes of hydrogen so dense as to be almost metallic," said Boris Yakobson, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Rice, in a prepared statement." More
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