Award Number: DE-EE0008094CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6Fuel Cells Technologies OfficeLocation(s): CAOffice(s): Golden Field Office
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July 11, 2017
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Super Metallated Frameworks as Hydrogen Storage
Award Number: DE-EE0008094
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Fuel Cells Technologies Office
Location(s): CA
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to The Regents of the University of California (UC Berkley) to carry out organic synthesis of metal organic framework building blocks, hydrothermal synthesis of metal organic frameworks, and solid state reactions on metal organic frameworks. All project work would occur within dedicated laboratory space on the UC Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California.
Metal Organic Framework (MOF) structures have large surface area and well-defined pores ideal for gas storage applications so this project would attempt to increase hydrogen storage in on board hydrogen fuel cells for light-duty-vehicles by improving MOF structures. Activities at UC Berkeley would include synthesizing several different MOFs to achieve the high metal loading needed to increase hydrogen storage and then studying these modified MOFs for characteristics such as pore size, volume, and hydrogen storage capacities to work toward developing MOFs for hydrogen storage that would achieve the DOE’s targets by optimization of the MOF synthesis and processing.