Brief history of hydrogen storage materials

In the late 1960s, it was first discovered in Bruhaven National Laboratory that Mg-Ni alloy had hydrogen absorption characteristics. Almost at the same time, while studying the properties of LaNi5 as a magnetic material, Philips Laboratories in the Netherlands unexpectedly found that Lani5 can reversibly absorb and release a large amount of hydrogen. 1974, Matsushita Electric found that Ti-Mn alloy has extremely high hydrogen absorption capacity. The research of hydrogen storage materials in China began in the late 1970s, which solved the activation problem of TiTe at room temperature. Zhejiang University has developed Mn 1-X CAXXNI5 hydrogen storage material.