Mark D. Allendorf (Sandia National Lab) presents “Nanopores and Nanoparticles for Hydrogen Transport and Storage” on Friday, March 5th at 4:30.
FYI – Mark will be teaching at Carleton in the spring of 2022 as a Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor.
The development of a hydrogen economy has potentially immense benefits for addressing the crisis of climate change. However, decades of research on the two main categories of storage materials—nanoporous sorbents and metal hydrides—have left us empty-handed: no materials to date can meet DOE targets for vehicular storage. Moreover, it is clear that new materials are needed to efficiently transport hydrogen from production sites to fueling stations. The Hydrogen Materials—Advanced Research Consortium (HyMARC) is a team of seven DOE national laboratories assembled to tackle the scientific challenges blocking discovery of game-changing materials needed to realize a sustainable hydrogen economy.
I will describe how HyMARC is using a combination of nanoscale chemical synthesis, high-performance computing, and state-of-the-art characterization tools to create new materials for both transportation and stationary hydrogen storage. As a cool example, I’ll explain the “inside-outs” of hydrogen release from metal hydride nanoclusters trapped inside porous carbon, including Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy images obtained at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. These results will demonstrate that we are far from the end of the road when it comes to exciting chemistry to solve the problem of material-based hydrogen storage.
Dr. Mark D. Allendorf is Co-Director of the Hydrogen Advanced Materials Research Consortium (HyMARC) and a Senior Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. He holds degrees in chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis (A.B.) and a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry at Stanford University. At Sandia, his research focuses on the fundamental science and applications of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and on hydrogen storage. Current interests include metal hydrides and MOFs for hydrogen storage, chemical and radiation sensing, gas separations, MOFs for electronic devices, and catalysts for biofuels production. He is President Emeritus and Fellow of The Electrochemical Society and has received awards for research, leadership, and teamwork, including a 2014 R&D100 Award for a novel approach to radiation detection.
Join Zoom Meeting https://carleton.zoom.us/j/97062621266
Meeting ID: 970 6262 1266 Passcode: 945583
Would you like cookies* and tea (or hot chocolate packets) to snack on during the Chemistry Seminar? On Friday, stop by the Mohrig Lounge-2nd floor Anderson between 3:15-4:30. Alison Block will be there to greet you. If you don’t know where the Mohrig Lounge is, it is the study space on the southeast corner of 2nd floor Anderson, bordered on the south by the offices of Deborah, Dani and Lanhao.
*gf, vegan, nut-free options available