Hydrogen energy has emerged as a significant energy source for accomplishing energy transformation and achieving carbon neutrality.Hydrogen production,storage and transportation are the key technologies to realize hyd...Hydrogen energy has emerged as a significant energy source for accomplishing energy transformation and achieving carbon neutrality.Hydrogen production,storage and transportation are the key technologies to realize hydrogen energy application and carbon neutralization goal.Apart from the mature technologies of fossil fuel reforming and water electrolysis,new hydrogen production methods(such as solar photolysis,biomass conversion,thermochemical circulation,etc.)have garnered widespread attention and research interest.The lack of safe and efficient hydrogen storage and utilization technology for hydrogen fuel cell systems is the major obstacle to achieving hydrogen economy.In the past decades,global researchers have conducted extensive studies on enhancing the hydrogen storage performance of materials,such as alloy,metal hydride,complex hydride,carbon-based materials,etc.,as well as the technological development of fuel cell power generation systems using solid hydrogen storage materials as hydrogen storage carriers.The themed issue entitled“Hydrogen Energy Production,Storage and Utilization”includes 10 carefully selected papers that address the most recent developments in hydrogen production and storage materials,involving catalyst design,structure characterization,hydrogen ab-/desorption performance and mechanism,and fuel cell coupling system exploit.展开更多
文摘Hydrogen energy has emerged as a significant energy source for accomplishing energy transformation and achieving carbon neutrality.Hydrogen production,storage and transportation are the key technologies to realize hydrogen energy application and carbon neutralization goal.Apart from the mature technologies of fossil fuel reforming and water electrolysis,new hydrogen production methods(such as solar photolysis,biomass conversion,thermochemical circulation,etc.)have garnered widespread attention and research interest.The lack of safe and efficient hydrogen storage and utilization technology for hydrogen fuel cell systems is the major obstacle to achieving hydrogen economy.In the past decades,global researchers have conducted extensive studies on enhancing the hydrogen storage performance of materials,such as alloy,metal hydride,complex hydride,carbon-based materials,etc.,as well as the technological development of fuel cell power generation systems using solid hydrogen storage materials as hydrogen storage carriers.The themed issue entitled“Hydrogen Energy Production,Storage and Utilization”includes 10 carefully selected papers that address the most recent developments in hydrogen production and storage materials,involving catalyst design,structure characterization,hydrogen ab-/desorption performance and mechanism,and fuel cell coupling system exploit.