Scientists are getting close to turning hydrogen into a metal — both in liquid form and maybe even solid form. The rewards, if they pull it off, are worth the effort.

While liquid gallium showed great promise as a material for hydrogen separation, creating a functioning membrane with the metal proved challenging, Datta said. "It turns out that liquid metals are ...

Hydrogen is not a metal on Earth, ... With this technique, dense hydrogen gas, or liquid gas, is loaded into a small canister and squeezed between two diamonds, the hardest known material.

On Earth, elements exist in one of three states: solid, liquid, or gas. The form an element takes depends on its pressure and temperature. While hydrogen is typically a gas on Earth, it can be ...

"[B]y demonstrating the feasibility of sandwiched liquid-metal membranes, we have opened the door to a highly promising new area of hydrogen energy research," Datta explained, "for there are many ...

Hence: liquid metallic hydrogen. That's metal. Most of the elements on the periodic table are metals: They're hard and shiny, and make for good electrical conductors.

‘It’s the first-ever sample of metallic hydrogen on Earth, so when you’re looking at it, you’re looking at something that’s never existed before’ ...

They say their liquid metallic hydrogen might be like the stuff in the interiors of gas-giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn, and fits with recent observations of Jupiter’s magnetic field. But ...

They occupy half of the spaces, something which was predicted earlier. "In the 1980s, three different models were proposed for the position of hydrogen at the metal/metal hydride interface," says ...

Tsinghua University scientists led by Jing Liu, have discovered a ‘smart’ liquid metal alloy that moves on its own. The liquid metal is a mixture of gallium, indium and tin.

Hydrogen turned into metal in stunning act of alchemy that could revolutionise technology and spaceflight ‘It’s the first-ever sample of metallic hydrogen on Earth, so when you’re looking at ...