Description
Materials engineering is crucial for the hydrogen industry as it enables the development of efficient and safe hydrogen storage systems, enhances fuel cell components, and supports the creation of robust infrastructure. Advanced materials are essential for storing hydrogen at high densities, improving fuel cell performance, and preventing issues like metal embrittlement in pipelines and tanks. Moreover, by advancing materials, the industry can significantly reduce costs and enhance the safety and efficiency of hydrogen production, storage, and transportation, thereby accelerating the transition to a sustainable hydrogen economy.
Over the last decade, more specific and sophisticated measuring methods have been used to determine the properties of materials for engineering solutions. Amongst them, synchrotron-related techniques are more and more often used to facilitate different studies.
In our case, since we study ceramic materials for protonic ceramic fuel cells, the most important data input that we can gain from synchrotron-based techniques is the one coming from both x-ray diffraction studies as well as from x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). The choice of these techniques is related to the information about both crystalline and electronic structure that we can have a grasp on and at the same time to the capabilities of investigating bulk samples. The additional advantage of these techniques are capability to measure samples in different conditions.
This talk will present how the XAS along with data from different techniques can help in understanding of properties of materials for the hydrogen industry and how these techniques can be useful not only for physicists but also for chemists and engineers.
