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Nature 460, 809-811 (13 August 2009) | doi:10.1038/460809a; Published online 12 August 2009

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Technology: Hydrogen-fuelled vehicles

Louis Schlapbach1

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Hydrogen is hailed as a non-polluting synthetic fuel that could replace oil, especially for transport applications. The technology to make this a reality — particularly hydrogen-storage materials — has been a long time coming, but the first commercial vehicles might now be only a few years away.

Why would hydrogen be a good transport fuel?

  1. Louis Schlapbach is at Empa - Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland, and the National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan.
    Email: louis.schlapbach@me.com

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