Materials hold the key to many advanced energy technologies including solar cells, batteries, fuel cells, and catalysis.  With the increasing need for cost-efficient methods for energy storage and conversion, it has become imperative to accelerate the rate at which energy-related materials are developed.  We use fast, scalable computational methods to identify and design new materials for energy storage and conversion.

EMD Technologies, LLC is actively involved in development of innovative materials for energy storage with a focus on vehicular or on-board applications.

Hydrogen storage

A major obstacle to hydrogen economy is the difficulty in storing hydrogen conveniently and economically. Conventional methods of hydrogen storage pose many problems like large storage space and loss of hydrogen leading to safety hazards.

Carbon Nanotube (CNT) is a promising candidate material for hydrogen storage. The mesoporous character of carbon nanotubes plays a very important role in their electrochemical properties.

As both CNTs and TiO₂ nanotubes have been individually considered as potential hydrogen storage materials, combining these two materials to form a composite structure would possibly yield a much better hydrogen carrier.

Our research is aimed at developing a composite architecture of carbon nanotubes on nano-porous titanium oxide for enhanced hydrogen storage.

Li-ion battery

 Based on a patent pending process EMD Technologies, LLC has developed  unique anode materials for Li-ion hosting based on transition metal-alloy fluo-oxide nanotubes that show exceptionally high reversible storage capacity.