ABSTRACT
For more than a decade, hydrogen, a most promising and clean fuel, as an alternative to traditional energy sources such as oil and natural gas has been the focus of research and development efforts globally. The materials science challenge of hydrogen storage is to better understand the interaction of hydrogen with other elements, especially metals. Storage of hydrogen remains one of the challenging technological barriers to the advancement of hydrogen fuel cell technologies for mobile applications. There are a variety of ways to store hydrogen. This chapter describes the different hydrogen storage methods. As far as use of different materials for the storage of hydrogen is concerned, considering all the achievements made in catalyst development, using formic acid as a hydrogen storage material seems to be a viable way that offers many benefits as compared to the conventional hydrogen storage technologies.
