Ethylene can do much more than just building the most common plastic. Interestingly, it can, in future, store hydrogen! — rather, our future “environment-friendly” transportation fuel. This amazing prediction is made by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Turkey’s Bilkent University scientists.
The report’s surprising prediction reveals that,
ethylene, a well-known inexpensive molecule, can be an important basis in developing frameworks for efficient and safe hydrogen-storage media.
The ethylene-based complexes — titanium or other so-called transition metals-made — will synthesize easily, and then evaluate for their high-capacity hydrogen storage potential, the team anticipates.
