Symposium FC
Materials and Process Innovation for Hydrogen Production and Storage

Hydrogen represents a promising solution as a clean, abundant, safe, and cost-effective energy carrier for grid, transportation, and industrial use. It is also highly versatile can be produced from either renewable or baseload energy sources. Moreover, coupling with the carbon or nitrogen cycles, hydrogen can be readily thermo-chemically processed to generate fuels and chemical products. Despite its potential, practical implementation of a competitive hydrogen infrastructure has often been limited by key challenges in cost-effective production, distribution, and storage. Breakthroughs at all levels of implementation—from materials research to device design to system engineering—are a priority. In addition, there are many fundamental aspects of hydrogen-materials interactions that remain poorly understood. Opportunities abound to exploit the enormous potential of novel synthesis approaches, multiscale modelling and simulation, data science and machine learning, characterization tools, and manufacturing advances to design new hydrogen materials and processes.
“Materials and Process Innovation in Hydrogen Production and Storage” will bring together researchers from physics, chemistry, materials science, and engineering disciplines to share scientific and technical advances and to highlight outstanding problems and guidelines for future research. Topics will span both fundamentals and applications, including (but not limited to) (photo) electrochemistry, catalysis, membranes, separation and purification; hydrogen compression and liquefaction; gas, liquid, and solid-state storage; and system engineering, scale-up, and performance evaluation, including safety, durability, and economic issues. Contributions covering multiscale modelling, in situ and operando characterization, materials synthesis, processing and manufacturing, and systems design will be featured.