Preface ........................................................ IX
List of Contributors ........................................... XI
1. Introduction ................................................. 1
Andreas Züttel References ................................. 6
2. History of Hydrogen .......................................... 7
Andreas Züttel, Louis Schlapbach, and Andreas
Borgschulte
2.1. Timeline of the History of Hydrogen ..................... 7
2.2. The Hindenburg and Challenger Disasters ................ 14
References .................................................. 20
3. Hydrogen as a Fuel .......................................... 23
3.1. Fossil Fuels ........................................... 23
Sonja Studer
3.2. The Carbon Cycle and Biomass Energy .................... 37
Samuel Stuck
3.3. The Hydrogen Cycle ..................................... 43
John D. Speight
References .................................................. 68
4. Properties of Hydrogen ...................................... 71
4.1. Hydrogen Gas ........................................... 71
Andreas Züttel
4.2. Interaction of Hydrogen with Solid Surfaces ............ 94
Andreas Borgschulte and Louis Schlapbach
4.3. Catalysis of Hydrogen Dissociation and
Recombination ......................................... 108
lb. Chorkendorff
4.4. The Four States of Hydrogen and Their
Characteristics and Properties ........................ 125
Seijirau Suda
4.5. Surface Engineering of Hydrides ....................... 132
Seijirau Suda
References ................................................. 139
5. Hydrogen Production ........................................ 149
5.1. Hydrogen Production from Coal and Hydrocarbons ........ 149
Andreas Borgschulte and Andreas Zuttel
5.2. Electrolysis: Hydrogen Production Using Electricity ... 155
Ursula Wittstadt
References ................................................. 163
6. Hydrogen Storage ........................................... 165
6.1. Hydrogen Storage in Molecular Form .................... 165
Andreas Züttel
6.2. Hydrogen Adsorption (Carbon, Zeolites, Nanocubes) ..... 173
Michael Hirscher and Barbara Panella
6.3. Metal Hydrides ........................................ 188
Andreas Züttel
6.4. Complex Transition Metal Hydrides ..................... 295
Klaus Yvon
6.5. Tetrahydroborates as a Non-transition Metal
Hydrides .............................................. 203
Shin-ichi Orimo and Andreas Züttel
6.6. Complex Hydrides ...................................... 211
Borislav Bogdanovic, Michael Felderhoff, and
Verdi Schüth
6.7. Storage in Organic Hydrides ........................... 237
Andreas Borgschulte, Sandra Coetze, and Andreas
Züttel
6.8. Indirect Hydrogen Storage via Metals and Complexes
Using Exhaust Water ................................... 244
Seijirau Suda and Michael T. Kelly
References ................................................. 256
7. Hydrogen Functionalized Materials .......................... 265
7.1. Magnetic Heterostructures - A Playground for
Hydrogen .............................................. 265
Arndt Remhofand Björgvin Hjörvarsson
7.2. Optical Properties of Metal Hydrides: Switchable
Mirrors ............................................... 275
Ronald Griessen, Ingrid Anna Maria Elisabeth
Giebels, and Bernard Dam
References ................................................. 327
8. Applications ............................................... 335
8.1. Fuel Cells Using Hydrogen ............................. 335
К. Andreas Friedrich and Felix N. Buchi
8.2. Borohydride Fuel Cells ................................ 364
Zhou Peng Li
8.3. Internal Combustion Engines ........................... 371
Cerrit Kiesgen, Dirk Christian Leinhos, and
Hermann Sebastian Rottengruber
8.4. Hydrogen in Space Applications ........................ 381
Robert С. Bowman Jr. and Bugga V. Ratnakumar
References ................................................. 410
Index ......................................................... 415
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