Item Details

title

Improving Existing and Discovering New Hydrogen Storage Materials Using Computational Materials Modeling

author

Harrison, David Brett

abstract

Alternative energy is currently one of the most active research areas in science. Lessening our dependence on fossil fuels has economic, environmental, and political benefits. With almost one-third of US energy going into transportation, a large piece of the puzzle is developing an alternative energy carrier to petroleum. Hydrogen is very attractive in the long term because it is abundant, potentially renewable, all countries have access to it, and it burns cleanly (no CO2 production) with oxygen to produce a large amount of energy (120 kJ/g). Unfortunately, there are still plenty of basic science and engineering hurdles that need to be overcome for hydrogen to become viable. Foremost among these is storing hydrogen in a sufficiently dense medium such that it can be used for automotive applications.

subject

Borohydrides

Computational Physics

Density Functional Theory

Electronic Structure Theory

Hydrogen Storage

contributor

Thonhauser, Timo (committee chair)

Salam, Akbar (committee member)

Cho, Samuel (committee member)

Holzwarth, Natalie (committee member)

Jurchescu, Oana (committee member)

date

2017-06-15T08:35:34Z (accessioned)

2018-06-14T08:30:12Z (available)

2017 (issued)

degree

Physics (discipline)

embargo

2018-06-14 (terms)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/82172 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Dissertation