Argonne National Laboratory Tribal Internship Program

On-board hydrogen storage is critical to the development of future transportation technologies, such as H 2 -powered fuel cell vehicles, in the new hydrogen-based economy. No current technology meets the 2010 performance targets of the hydrogen storage system set by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). At Argonne National Laboratory, we are developing nanostructured polymeric materials as the non-dissociative hydrogen adsorbents for the transportation application. The successful outcome of this research could lead to a low-cost, high-capacity hydrogen storage material that can be mass-produced economically within the existing U.S. industrial infrastructure. We are currently also developing new nanomaterials as the low-cost electrode catalysts for the proton exchange membrane fuel cell in the application of future clean car technology.