Thanks to journalist LEIGH COLLINS at Hydrogen Insight for taking the time to talk to our CEO, Samer Taha, about how novel nano-engineered reticular materials enable safe and cost-efficient hydrogen storage in solid state.
INTERVIEW | Start-up founded by Nobel Prize winner promises to revolutionise hydrogen industry with new solid-state storage material
H2MOF is utilising new field of metal organic framework chemistry to create low-cost crystalline structures with huge internal surface areas that can store and release H2 molecules using less energy than compression or liquefaction.
A US start-up founded by two of the world’s most acclaimed chemists says it will use the relatively new field of reticular chemistry to create a solid-state material that will be able to store and release hydrogen more cheaply and efficiently than even compressed or liquefied H2.
By doing so, California-based H2MOF says it will be able to significantly cut the cost of transporting and using H2.
The company — founded in 2021 by Nobel Prize-winning British American professor Sir Fraser Stoddart and Jordanian American professor Omar Yaghi, the inventor of reticular chemistry — is developing a non-toxic metal-organic framework (MOF) material designed to store hydrogen using very little energy, and then release the H2 without any further energy input. (…)
