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.
California Autos Examiner
Friday, March 10, 2006
Posted by Michael Sheena at 5:45 PM
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