Cesium and rubidium compounds dramatically improve hydrogen storage efficiency – Russian scientists’ study

Compounds based on cesium and rubidium - alkali metals silvery yellow and silvery white in colour - are able to absorb and retain in their volume four times more hydrogen than any other currently known material. This is the conclusion drawn by the scientists of Skoltech, the Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and the scientific centres of China, Japan and Italy based on the results of the study published in the Advanced Energy Materials journal.