Gastech 2026
Bangkok, Thailand – September 14-17
Gastech, the world’s largest exhibition and conference dedicated to natural gas, LNG, low carbon solutions, electrification and AI for energy, returns from 14–17 September 2026 at BITEC in Bangkok, Thailand.
The event brings together senior industry figures, emerging technologies, and cross-sector partnerships focused on building a more secure, affordable energy future. It’s a meeting ground where policymakers, investors, and innovators come together to strengthen industry competitiveness and resilience, and speed up the rollout of next-generation energy infrastructure.
The Gastech Conferences will gather 800 speakers from across the global energy value chain, with a rich agenda including 200 sessions spread over 18 programme tracks. The Hydrogen Technical Programme will provide vital insights into this fast-evolving industry, highlighting the critical technologies and advancements required to achieve a sustainable and commercially viable hydrogen market. Our CTO, Dr. Neel Sirosh, will join the track “Innovations across the hydrogen value chain” presenting H2MOF’s solid-state hydrogen storage technology based on reticular materials.
About our session
Monday, September 14 – 2:00 PM
Solid-State Hydrogen Storage at Low Pressure and Near-Ambient Temperature Based on Nobel Prize-Winning Science
Dr. Neel Sirosh, CTO
Safe and efficient storage remains one of the major barriers to wider adoption of hydrogen. The currently available best-in-class storage solutions require energy-intensive compression or liquefaction, costly infrastructure, and complex safety systems. In many projects, the delivered price of hydrogen is up to ten times the production cost, driven primarily by inefficient storage and transportation. H2MOF offers a solid-state alternative based on nano-engineered reticular materials that store hydrogen at low pressure and near-ambient temperature, achieving storage densities competitive with high-pressure tanks without the associated energy and safety penalties.
H2MOF’s technology builds on the foundational work of its founders: the late Nobel Laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart, a pioneer of supramolecular chemistry and molecular machines, and Nobel Laureate Prof. Omar Yaghi, founder of reticular chemistry and inventor of reticular materials such as metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent–organic frameworks (COFs). These materials are crystalline networks which can be designed with atomic precision, creating an ultra-porous scaffold in which as little as one gram of material can have an internal surface area of an entire football field. In practical terms, those precisely defined pores act like “parking lots” for hydrogen molecules, enabling dense, reversible storage at low pressure and near-ambient temperature. This scientific foundation allows H2MOF to address hydrogen storage in a fundamentally new way that moves beyond legacy solutions.
In his presentation, Dr. Neel Sirosh (CTO at H2MOF) will unfold the scientific background of H2MOF’s technology and the substantial benefits it can enable in practice. Storing and transporting hydrogen in solid form at low pressure—rather than as a highly pressurised gas or cryogenic liquid—dramatically reduces the need and cost for safety measures. Low-pressure storage also simplifies integration across the hydrogen value chain, whether the hydrogen is coming straight from an electrolyzer or being supplied to a fuel cell. Because the gas can be handled at gentler conditions, it avoids multi-stage compression and liquefaction, along with the costly equipment and safety systems those routes demand. The result is easier integration of hydrogen at lower CAPEX and OPEX for production, transport, and dispensing, while still maintaining gravimetric and volumetric energy densities that remain competitive with 700-bar systems.
Let’s meet at Gastech
If you are attending the event and would like to connect to explore how H2MOF’s solid-state hydrogen storage technology can significantly reduce the costs of storage and transportation, get in touch with us.