MHCoE Partners
The Metal Hydride Center of Excellence (MHCoE) involves eight universities, three companies, and six federal laboratories located throughout the country. Each MHCoE partner is responsible for a well-defined aspect of the center's research, which is coordinated by Sandia National Laboratories. Sandia provides direction and manages the MHCoE for the Department of Energy in addition to its role in materials discovery and engineering science.
MHCoE partners are conducting research in the following areas:
- Metal hydride R&D for hydrogen storage (Sandia)
- Synthesis of novel metal hydrides for automotive applications (Brookhaven)
- Synthesis of nanophase materials for thermodynamically tuned reversible hydrogen storage (Caltech)
- Rapid screening of lightweight intermetallics for hydrogen storage (GE Global Research)
- Thermodynamically tuned nanophase materials for reversible hydrogen storage (HRL)
- High-throughput combinatorial chemistry development of complex hydrides (Intematix)
- Development and evaluation of advanced hydride systems for reversible hydrogen storage (JPL)
- Neutron scattering characterization and thermodynamic modeling of advanced metal hydrides for reversible hydrogen storage (NIST)
- Novel synthetic approaches for the preparation of complex hydrides for hydrogen storage (Oak Ridge)
- Hydrogen storage R&D (Savannah River National Laboratory)
- Thermodynamically tuned nanophase materials for reversible hydrogen storage: structure and kinetics of nanoparticle and model system materials (Stanford)
- Fundamental studies of advanced high-capacity reversible metal hydrides (Hawaii)
- Metal hydride-based hydrogen storage materials: structure, chemistry, and electronic structure (Illinois)
- Effect of trace elements on long-term cycling and aging properties of complex hydrides (Nevada)
- First-principles modeling of hydrogen storage in metal hydride systems (Pittburgh/Carnegie Mellon)
- Chemical vapor synthesis of nanocrystalline binary and complex metal hydrides for reversible hydrogen storage (Utah)