"... "What looks like a fertilized egg, flows like water, gets stuffed with catalysts and exotic nanostructures and may have the potential of making the current retail gasoline infrastructure compatible with hydrogen-based vehicles of the future – not to mention also contributing to arenas such as nuclear proliferation and global warming?"
The Bulletin, the monthly magazine of The American Ceramic Society, carries their answer (PDF). Unlike many press releases, their work is truly very different than other existing research in that it represents a whole new class of materials that can be used for diverse storage purposes, by having properties similar to both a liquid and being solid in form. The new material consists of tiny hollow spheres, known formally as Porous Wall-Hollow Glass Microspheres (PW-HGM). ..."
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