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Many people envisage a future in which dirty, inefficient gasoline-powered vehicles are replaced with clean, efficient hydrogen-powered transport. For that to become a reality, we need to be able to store large amounts of hydrogen within a small, lightweight package. We are seeking, in collaboration with the Universities of Cardiff and Birmingham, to develop organic materials that readily take up and release large quantities of hydrogen.

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B.S. Ghanem, M. Hashem, K.D.M. Harris, K.J. Msayib, M. Xu, P.M. Budd, N. Chaukura, D. Book, S. Tedds, A. Walton and N.B. McKeown, Triptycene-based polymers of intrinsic microporosity: organic materials that can be tailored for gas adsorption, Macromolecules, 2010, 43, 5287-5294. DOI: 10.1021/ma100640m

K.J. Msayib, D. Book, P.M. Budd, N. Chaukura, K.D.M. Harris, M. Helliwell, S. Tedds, A. Walton, J.E. Warren, M. Xu and N.B.McKeown, Nitrogen and hydrogen adsorption by an organic microporous crystal, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2009, 48, 3273-3277.

N.B. McKeown, P.M. Budd and D. Book, Microporous polymers as potential hydrogen storage materials, Macromol. Rapid Commun., 2007, 28, 995-1002.

P.M. Budd, A. Butler, J. Selbie, K. Mahmood, N.B. McKeown, B. Ghanem, K. Msayib, D. Book and A. Walton, The potential of organic polymer-based hydrogen storage materials, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2007, 9, 1802-1808.

B. Ghanem, N.B. McKeown, K.D.M. Harris, Z. Pan, P.M. Budd, A. Butler, J. Selbie, D. Book and A. Walton, A triptycene-based polymer of intrinsic microporosity that displays enhanced surface area and hydrogen adsorption, Chem. Commun., 2007, 67-69.

N. B. McKeown, B. Ghanem, K. J. Msayib, P. M. Budd, C. E. Tattershall, K. Mahmood, S. Tan , D. Book, H. W. Langmi and A. Walton, Towards polymer-based hydrogen storage materials: engineering ultramicroporous cavities within polymers of intrinsic microporosity, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2006, 45, 1804-1807.

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A triptycene-based polymer of intrinsic microporosity (PIM) shows high hydrogen uptake