CHEMISTRY, ELECTROCHEMISTRY, AND ELECTROCHEMICAL APPLICATIONS | Hydrogen

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Certain information on the history of hydrogen discovery, its electrolytic synthesis and use in fuel cells for electric power generation, and data on hydrogen abundance in the universe and the Earth are presented.

Further, the fundamental physicochemical properties of hydrogen, methods of its production, and the physical, adsorption, and chemical methods of its storage and transportation are considered. Attention is focused on the metal hydrides as the promising materials for the electrochemical application of hydrogen. The most important chemical processes that involve hydrogen and the basic features of hydrogen adsorption and dissolution in metal matrices from both the gas phase and electrolyte solutions are summarized. The processes of the gas-phase and electrochemical hydrogenation of organic compounds are compared. Special attention is paid to peculiarities of electrochemical reactions of molecular hydrogen evolution and ionization. Methods for hydrogen detection in gas media as well as the contributions of chemistry and electrochemistry of hydrogen in the concept of hydrogen generation and consumption systems are briefly surveyed.

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