California Autos Examiner

Friday, March 10, 2006

Absorbs 3x the Hydrogen Compared to Leading Well Known Brands

Scientists at UCLA and the University of Michigan have created "the quicker picker upper" of Hydrogen fuel cells based off a compound called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs to you). MOFs could greatly increase the driving range of hydrogen fuel cell cars (they don't go so far on a tankful right now). To give you an idea of what MOFs can do, a pinch of a MOF has roughly the surface area of a football field. As an added bonus MOFs can be made inexpensively from chemicals like zinc oxide, a common ingredient in sunscreen, and terephthalate, which is found in plastic soda bottles (they are unsure where the soda bottles found terephthalate). Can't wait for your hydrogen car with 300-400 mile range? Well, too bad. Currently, the high storage densities are possible only at -321 degrees Fahrenheit (roughly the same temperature of my wife's stare when I do something wrong). Want to know more? If so, then I recommend you read the real this article.

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