Atomic and Molecular Clusters for Hydrogen Storage
A special issue of Hydrogen (ISSN 2673-4141).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2026) | Viewed by 2094
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The need for alternative energy sources to replace our dependence on fossil fuels has become increasingly apparent as climate change, air pollution, and other consequences of their continued use become increasingly noticeable. Hydrogen is a clean energy source with several advantages; however, being a lightweight gas at ambient temperature and pressures presents issues in relation to safely storing and using the fuel. Storing hydrogen indirectly in atomic and molecular clusters has the potential to help alleviate these shortfalls.
This Special Issue, entitled “Atomic and Molecular Clusters for Hydrogen Storage”, aims to present recent experimental and theoretical investigations exploring the chemistry and physics of both small and large clusters as models for hydrogen storage materials. This Special Issue is grouped into two subsections. One will mainly focus on strongly bound atomic clusters, including free and supported transition metal hydrides, salt-like metal hydrides, and hydrogen adsorbed to pure and doped atomic clusters. The other section will largely group together studies that focus on chemical hydrides and molecular clusters composed of hydrogen-containing compounds and nanodroplets. Both sections will span various cluster size ranges and will couple both experimental and theoretical techniques.
We welcome submissions reporting recent investigations from all areas of cluster and nanocluster science that incorporate hydrogen to advance hydrogen storage and handling.
Dr. Jonathan Lyon
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cluster chemistry and physics
- atomic and molecular clusters containing hydrogen
- hydrogen storage
- hydrogen economy
- solid state
- interface chemistry
- theoretical and experimental physical chemistry
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