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The role of palladium in a hydrogen economy - Review article


Brian D. Adams and Aicheng Chen

We are facing accelerated global warming due to the accumulation of greenhouse gases. A hydrogen-based economy is one potential approach toward maintaining our standard of living while lowering carbon dioxide emissions. Palladium is a unique material with a strong affinity to hydrogen owing to both its catalytic and hydrogen absorbing properties.

Palladium has the potential to play a major role in virtually every aspect of the envisioned hydrogen economy, including hydrogen purification, storage, detection, and fuel cells. Major aspects of current research and potential applications of palladium-based nanomaterials in various hydrogen technologies are presented in this review.

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Materials Today (2011) 14(6), 282-289

 

doi: 10.1016/S1369-7021(11)70143-2

 

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Energy  •  Metals and alloys  •  Surface science