![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080917124248im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field UCLA Solution to Chemical Mystery Could Yield More Efficient Hydrogen Cars
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February 27, 2008
![hydrogen release from sodium alanate](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080917124248im_/http://nsf.gov/news/other_images/alanate_surface_l.jpg) | Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, using molecular dynamics simulations, have solved a decade-old mystery, and their findings could eventually lead to commercially practical designs of storage materials for use in hydrogen vehicles. Their research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on March 4, 2008. Full story |
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