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Thanks to Dirk from Amplitude our OPO is running at full power again!

The Weekly Hydrogen Update 24/06 Treating H2 as ideal gas simplifies hydrogen uptake measurements ("Sieverts method"). However, ask Darren Broom for refined procedures (e.g., D. P. Broom and M. Hirscher, ChemPhysChem 2021, 22, 2141)

The Weekly Hydrogen Update 24/07 A negative consequence of H2 being an almost ideal gas is that it is difficult to store it with high volumetric and gravimetric density. Despite enormous effort, hydrogen storage remains an exciting scientific challenge.

The Horse Association of America was created to fight the rise of the tractor. (1921) books.google.nl/books?id=QGRFA…

The Weekly Hydrogen Update 24/08 Why should we use hydrogen as an energy carrier? There is the unbeatable energy density of 33.3 kWh/kg. However, there are subtle disadvantages: one is the difficulty of storing it, and the other is the conversion efficiency:

No weekly hydrogen update this week - I installed my balcony power station instead (no H2, just with battery). However, I wonder, this tinkering is the green revolution we are waiting for?

This is well worth a look for aspiring PhD students interested in H₂. There's an impressive array of projects, including H₂ adsorption, tritium capture, isotope separation, H₂ isotope effects on chemical bonding & incorporation of nuclear quantum effects in MD simulations...

It’s a story of how academia goes wrong. And how it self-corrects. A must read for everyone: 2020 - A discovery of room-temperature superconductivity is published in Nature by Ranga Dias 2023 - The second RT superconductor is reported by Dias in Nature 2024 - The first paper

Since PhD-times, I wondered why palladium is such an exceptional hydride material. We found a satisfactory explanation: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… even for you?

"Junior scientists are encouraged to pursue scientific careers although the structure of the pyramid is sustainable only if the vast majority of them later lose their investment of time and effort." osf.io/preprints/soca…

Please join us for the LightChEC Summer School this September, we have an amazing line up of speakers!

After presenting the main result of our recent paper (Adv. Sci. 2024, 11, 2304603) at the #MH_2024 that hydrogen hardly chemisorbs on magnesium, I received comments like "long known". But why was H chemisorbed on Mg the main assumption in various talks on the conference?

#Newarticle published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 🔬Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Probing Fe Segregation during the Oxygen Evolution Reaction 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬F. Longo, P.J. Lloreda-Jurado, Jorge Gil-Rostra, A.R. Gonzalez-Elipe, F. Yubero, et al. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

The website for MH2026, the 19th International Symposium on Metal-Hydrogen Systems, to be held in Sendai, Japan, from 25th-30th October 2026, is now live. mh2026.jp

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